This sinuous street, the main street of the old town, is flanked with warmly coloured houses with arches. at n° 18 you will see, the old town house of the president, Antoine Favre, the father of Vaugelas - the first base of the académie florimentane, which this well-read premier established alongside Honoré d'Urfé, the author of Astrid. In 1610 the town house became the bishopric of St. François de Sales. The Manufacture. came later.