The Monastery of Brou in Bourg-en-Bresse in the South-East of France was built by Marguerite d’Autriche from 1506-1532. The church, begun in 1513, was to be a dignified burial place for her husband Philibert Le Beau, duke of Savoy, which had died in 1504, his mother and inconsolable Marguerite herself. While the monastery is built in the regional stlye the church shows Flemish influences and is more or less pure Flamboyant gothic. This at a time when in the rest of Europe the Renaissance already had prevailed.
The upper image shows a detail from the jube that seperates nave and choir, on the lower image a precious flower of stone from the tomb of Marguerite.
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