Deel 72 - Detail from map of Charleville (Charleville-Mézières), France

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A print of detail from a seventeenth-century map of Charleville (now Charleville-Mézières) in France, showing the location of the Capuchin friary (‘Les Capucins’) in the town. The foundation for the church and friary was laid on 6 May 1615 and the building was taken possession of by the Irish Capuchins on 3 October 1620. In 1685 the Charleville friary was transferred to the French Capuchins and the Irish friars went to Bar-sur-Aube. The map was originally published in Matthaeus Merian and Martin Zeiler, ‘Topographia Galliae’ (Frankfort [c.1655-61]).