Marie et le Roy
A charming guest house and
bed & breakfast for your vacation
in Cotignac in Provence
A holiday rental in a cottage in Cotignac, Provence, southern France, to discover and enjoy the exceptional surroundings.


Once upon a time

In the year 1519, a lumberjack by the name of Jean de la Baume witnessed the apparition of the Virgin Mary who requested that he built a chapel at the place of her apparition.
Mary promised her blessings to him and to those who come to worship there.

The first stone was laid that very year.
In the year 1521, Pope Leon X endorsed the miracles produced there.
In the year 1637, King Louis XIII and Queen Anne of Austria sent an emissary: Father Fiacre to pray in Cotignac in the hope that they would be graced with the dauphin they had been awaiting for 22 years.

On the 5th of September 1637Louis XIV the future king was born. Ever since that day Louis XIII dedicated his kingdom to Mary and declared August 15 a national holiday : Assumption.

To show his gratitude to the Virgin Mary, and to present his wife Marie-Thérèse, the Sun King came to worship at Cotignac with his mother Anne of Austria and Mazarin onthe 21st February 1660…