If you ask Jean-Claude Curtil about the reasons that led him to take an interest in Bray, his answer will undoubtedly be: "but this surprise that I evoke in this text, this emotion, it was I who felt them myself when I discovered the Priory of Bray and its chapel, I had the feeling of having struck with my foot a cut flint, a work of art forgotten there, since the dawn of time. I immediately sought to see and to know, and I was filled with the results of my research."