Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Chapel

Built in the 17th century, this chapel is decorated with paintings and model ships offered as ex-votos by sailors.

From the esplanade surrounding the chapel, there is a beautiful panoramic view over the Seine estuary, the port of Le Havre and the Normandy Bridge.

The carillon of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Chapel in Honfleur regularly plays an “Ave Maria” composed by Louis-Alfred Lefébure-Wély, a 19th-century French organist and composer.

It is not the best-known version, such as those by Schubert or Gounod, but a rarer and original setting, often referred to locally as the “Ave Maria of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce”.

This mechanical carillon is an integral part of the chapel’s distinctive atmosphere. It plays several religious melodies, but Lefébure-Wély’s Ave Maria is the one heard every day at 4 p.m.

The bells also ring every quarter of an hour.