Milly-la-Foret - Chapelle de St Blaise des Simples

The Chapel was all that remained of a ‘madrerie’ or lazaret where lepers were successfully treated by the ‘simples’ or medicinal plants and when it was restored in 1958 with funds raised by some twenty or so local people -Cocteau was offered the walls to decorate. This he did with remarkable panache, creating wonderful images of medicinal plants climbing towards the ceiling with, on either side of his depiction of angels assisting Christ in his resurrection, two crowns of local thorns and two chandeliers created in the form of upturned gardening forks.