Germigny-l'Exempt

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 24 mi southeast of Bourges at the junction of departmental routes D100, D15, D78, D43.

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.