Place of storage of bread and its weighing, in Lent. It is located at the exit of the refectory, under the stairs leading up to the cells. The door of St-Alexis is open on the photo. On the far right, door leading to the courtyard cloister. The place is famous for its gigantic spiders: the July 13, 1897, Thérèse will speak to Mother Agnès about the violence she used to remove the cobwebs from the black hole of St Alexis under the stairs.
The door of St-Alexis is open on the photo. On the far right, door leading to the courtyard cloister.
More recent view taken from the other side, of the door leading to the courtyard. The door of St-Alexis is closed.
Behind Marie Guérin going up the small staircase of the cellars, one discerns the entrance of St-Alexis. On the right, a window of the refectory; on the right again, not visible in the photo, a door leading to the garden.
