| STATION 1 – BELVOIR |
During « the Terror », two revolutionary groups were fighting against the anti-revolutionary non-juring priests of Jeanne-Antide. On one side, there were “the Moderates”, Patriots of Sancey led by a constitunional priest called Vernier and Jeanne-Antide’s brother Joachim Thouret and on the other side “The Rabid” from the Society of the friends of the Republic of Belvoir led by Grandjacquet. In January 1794, “the Rabid” took advantage of secret masses to provoke the arrest and lock up of 50 inhabitants and the guillotine for the Abbot Robert of Belvoir.
| STATION 2 – PROVENCHERE |
When she was a child, Jeanne-Antide would go on a pilgrimage to Notre Dame de la Roche to pray the Holy Virgin. The legend says that it is there that Marie-Josèphe Socié de Solemont prayed the Holy Virgin for saving her as she was chased by ill-intentioned men. In 1674, on her demand, a chapel was built in the same oratory dug out of the rock where Marie-Josèphe Socié de Solemont had asked the Holy Virgin to save her.
| STATION 3 – LA GRANGE |
In 1797, as she was back from her exile and considered as an emigrant, Jeanne-Antide was forced to hide. For nine months, she lived underground in a cellar in the village of La Grange. She would then be recognized as innocent and regularized at Vaucluse’s trial in 1798.
| STATION 4 – VAUCLUSE |
Jeanne-Antide would be regularly sent to the tribunal of Vaucluse refusing to take an oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. But in 1798, the inhabitants of La Grange and her brother Joachim testified in her favour.
Jeanne-Antide finally got a residence certificate and a passport to go to Besançon and Vesoul.
| STATION 5 – SURMONT |
From 1793 to 1795, Jeanne-Antide gave support to the non-juring priests who were hiding in the woods and caves of Sancey and Surmont. She secretly distributed leaflets, supplied the priests, taught children the Gospel and organized the secret masses celebrated by the priests. The Abbot Pourcelot, priest of Sancey, would tell her: “ Miss Antide, I have very great obligations towards you, you have done an admirable job in my Parish, you carried out the both functions of priest and vicar”.