Church of Saint-François-des-Cordeliers

The monastery was Franciscan and the French name term cordelier refers to the simple rope belts the monks would tie their cassocks around.

Since the monastery was under the patronage of the dukes, the church had close ties to the House of Lorraine and a number of its members were laid to rest there.

Marie-Antoinette of Austria stopped at the church to pray on her way to Paris for her marriage to her future husband King Louis XVI of France.

Archduke Otto von Habsburg-Lothringen, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and head of the house of Lorraine, married here on May 10, 1951 to Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen.

[2] Each year, on the 3rd Saturday in October, a mass in memory of the family of the Dukes of Lorraine and Bar is celebrated by the parish priest of the Basilica of Saint-Epvre in the church of the Cordeliers.