Built on the left bank of a distance, this small village is dispersed in the form of 17 hamlets.
The origin of its name comes from "Karilles synonym for small stones or flint, there are more than five millennia. Then over time the name of the village was successively transformed into "Garilli" had the time of the Gauls and then "Garolla" and "Gerolles" to finally become Chanterelles since 1200.
Located in the heart of the village you can admire the Romanesque church of the 12th century that has remained miraculously intact over the centuries.
The Notre Dame has a beautiful bell tower, a porch and above all caquetoire-stone open to the outside through a door flanked by four windows.
But the rare piece, unique and valuable is the tympanum of the 12th century, entirely carved representing the Mystic Lamb. It is the only tympanum of the Romanesque that currently exist in Gâtinais. This work suggests that if the original had chanterelles in the 12th century a distinguished spiritual role.
Note that the top of the tower was partly rebuilt in the 19th century the lines of Montargis: high spire pinnacles. Indeed, shortly after the revolution, the building had lost its spire bell tower served as a support for the cabin of an optical telegraph Chappe for nearly a century!
Listed historic: it Chanterelles born in 1584, Jacques Lablonde, Huguenot, who destroyed the statue of Our Lady of Notre-Dame de Paris. For his misdeeds, he was burned at the cathedral square.
Finally, the town currently has more than 700 people called Girollois or Girolloises. For ten years, the village population has experienced a net increase of 25%
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