Rue Collège de la Croix Street

In 1405, Pierre de Foix, a cardinal who became a legate of Avignon, succeeded him as cardinal and the street was named Rue de Foix.

One impressive wing of the de Viviers mansion, also referred to as Gaillard de la Mothe, opens onto this street. Recent renovation work revealed magnificent painted ceilings and decoration under coating material, in a room that was once the grand dining room in the early 14th century. The patterns, which represent the coats of arms of the Christian courts, are thought to have been painted for a meeting of princes in 1336, invited by Pope Benedict XII, in this palace where the cardinal Gaillard de la Mothe lived.

In 1500 Guillaume de Ricci founded a school, called Collège de la Croix, for ten students, the street took on this name, and kept it even after students were transferred to the Saint Charles Seminary in 1704.

Since 2013, this former palace is used for inter-generational activities - living space and restaurant for older persons, day care for children 3 months to 4 years and parents-children actrivities.

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