La Maison De La Lune

Opposite the covered market on Place René Cassin is a characteristic Art Nouveau house, built in 1900 on the site of another building demolished a year earlier.

The Sparnacian architect Henry Clouet planned two perpendicular building bodies interlocking at the level of the circulation spaces and a tower housing the vestibule and the staircase. The plan chosen as well as elements of the façade such as the heavily worked skylights on the second floor and the balcony or the wide entablature clearly refer to the neo-Gothic style; while the association of the red and yellow of the brick with the white of the stone and the sculptures are characteristic of the Art Nouveau which is developing. This building was financed and then offered by a notary to Léonie Pasquier as a pledge of love, which did not prevent her from marrying another man four years later. The bourgeois of the time would therefore have nicknamed it the "house of the Moon" to insinuate the way in which the lady would have acquired it.