"The hotel of the upper deanery of Lisieux is a former presbytery built in 1769 and which has housed the National School of Music and Dance since 1978.
History
The senior dean was the highest ecclesiastical dignitary of Lisieux after the bishop-count. In 1769, Jean-Baptiste-René Le Bas de Fresne had the canonical house rebuilt. In 1884, the Brothers of the Christian Schools transformed the building into a school. Spared by the bombings of 1944, the building was acquired in 1978 by the city of Lisieux to transfer its music school there, the current National School of Music and Dance.
Architecture
The facades and roofs, the decorated rooms, including four on the ground floor and one on the first floor, have been classified as historical monuments since May 16, 1979."