7. Ouanne to Entrains-sur-Nohain

The Notre-Dame d'Ouanne church, rebuilt between 1495 and 1520 thanks to the generosity of the families of the Ulmes and Beaujeu, illustrates quite well the influence of flamboyant Gothic in the Auxerrois region. It consists of a nave of three vessels, whose sides extend in a wander around a pentagonal choir. A seigneurial chapel, probably later, is grafted onto the northern ambulatory. The whole building is vaulted on cross-heads, with keys hanging in the choir.

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Parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul of Sougères-en-Puisaye, with a beautiful flamboyant ogival style, forming a parallelogram, with irregular extension to the choir. On the tympanum, three niches decorated with canopies, but empty, pigeons with cabbage on the crawl. On the right, a small door of the same style. A very low bell tower rises on the choir. Inside: three ogival stone vaulted naves. The large nave with four wide spans of 4.50 m each, which caused too much thrust, hence the need to build double buttresses.

The current layout of the Château des Barres after Sougères-en-Puysaye belongs to Claude Chaillou, born on June 6, 1784 in Beaumont la Ferrière. Son of a blacksmith master, he studied brilliantly. An auditor at the Conseil d'Etat in 1805, he married Marguerite de Champagny (1788-1837), daughter of Napoleon's Minister of Foreign Affairs, which opened up an important official career in the Napoleonic administration.

The park was designed by Achille Duchène (1866-1947) in 1903, son of Henri Duchène, a great French landscape gardener who revived the gardens in the tradition of Versailles and Le Nôtre, to replace a more romantic landscape, probably designed by Chaillou des Barres.

The chapel (19th century) is currently being restored.

The castle cannot be visited.

The Church of Entrains sur Nohain is placed under the name of Saint Sulpice, it is dated to the 13th - 16th - 18th centuries. Its choir dates from the 13th century, the nave and transept were built in 1595. The two chapels are dated from the 15th century, for Sainte Marie, and the 17th century for Saint Joseph. The bell tower tower porch is from 1766.