Germigny-l’Exempt () is a commune in the central French department of Cher.
Geography A farming area comprising the village and a couple of hamlets situated by the banks of the small Luisant river some southeast of Bourges at the junction of departmental routes D100, D15, D78, D43.
Population
Sights The twelfth-century church of Notre-Dame, with its exceptionally tall tower-porch, was built after the siege of 1108 by Louis VI the Fat as a symbol of the Capetian « Pax Dei ». The inconographic program of its inner portal of 1215 is inherited from the north porch of the west portal of two churches: Laon Cathedral and the abbey church in Saint-Gilles du Gard. The tympanum showing a Sedes Sapientiae is meant to celebrate the triumph of the Church (the Virgin being symbolic of the Church) upon heretics who reject the real presence in the eucharist. The chateau of Château-Renaud, dating from the seventeenth century.
See also Communes of the Cher department
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Photographs of the commune