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This Treehouse Chapel has been alive since Louis IX. In the late 1600s the tree survived a lightning fire that hollowed out the center. Interpreting this occurrence as a holy event, the local priest at the time called for the tree to be turned into a church. The tree was still growing under the kingdom of Louis IX and it survived the Hundred Years War with the English, The Black Death, the Reformation and the Revolution.
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![](http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp17/diamond_soul/tr1.jpg)
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I thought this photo deserved to be big.
![](http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp17/diamond_soul/allouville-chene1.jpg)
An artists version of it, that I found pretty cool.
Update: A few photos of what it looks like today:
![](http://i1068.photobucket.com/albums/u450/curiousplaces111/France-Oak-Chapel-Inside-Old-Tree-Chene-Chapelle-1.jpg)
![](http://i1068.photobucket.com/albums/u450/curiousplaces111/France-Oak-Chapel-Inside-Old-Tree-Chene-Chapelle-2.jpg)
![](http://i1068.photobucket.com/albums/u450/curiousplaces111/France-Oak-Chapel-Inside-Old-Tree-Chene-Chapelle-6.jpg)
![](http://i1068.photobucket.com/albums/u450/curiousplaces111/France-Oak-Chapel-Inside-Old-Tree-Chene-Chapelle-3.jpg)
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