The lazar house (a place to quarantine people affected by leprosy) and surrounding defensive walls were also constructed during the same period.

In 1706, a great fire destroyed part of the town – the Grange aux Dîmes (the “Tithe Barn”) and a few houses on the street “rue des Ponts” were all that remained.

In 1946 the small village “la Mothe aux Aulnaies” became a part of Charny – giving it a larger territory over the valley of the River Ouanne.

The church Saint Pierre de Charny, consecrated in 1738, was restored in the 19th century and has a wooden romanesque-style nave.

Marcel Djerzinski, one of the main characters in Michel Houellebecq's novel Atomised, spends his early childhood in Charny.

To see : •Two beautiful dormer windows built by local carpenters in the street “Grande Rue” •the “Grange aux Dîmes” (the “Tithe Barn”) •the remains of the old fortified wall •the banks of the river Ouanne with its fords and bridges •the leisure park with its fishing lake, fitness trail, climbing wall and picnic areas... •the present-day Town Hall used to be an elegant château with a small park and trees which are hundreds of years old.