The construction of Dole's collegiate church Notre-Dame began in 1509 near another church from the beginning of the 13th century already dedicated to Notre-Dame and then too small to honor the rank of Dole, which had become the capital of Franche-Comté. The Saint-Michel church in Dijon, then under construction, served as a model for Dole's new collegiate church. Its choir and chapels were completed around 1530, its nave and aisles around 1572. The architectural style evolving very quickly at the end of the Middle Ages, the north portal of the collegiate church is Flamboyant Gothic while the western one, designed four years later, is already in Renaissance style.