This Montréal is not the Canadian one — it's a tiny hilltop village in the Yonne department of Burgundy, easily missed and rarely crowded. The draw is the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame, whose interior contains a set of late-medieval carved choir stalls of extraordinary quality. The woodwork depicts Biblical scenes and figures with an expressiveness that rivals the great Gothic workshops, and yet the village sees only a fraction of the visitors that flock to nearby Vézelay.
The village itself is small and quiet, with a handful of stone houses clustered around the church between the two surviving medieval gates — the Porte d'Avallon above and the Porte d'En-Bas below. From the church terrace there is a wide view over the Serein valley. It makes a good stop on a circuit of the Avallonnais region, combined with Vézelay and the nearby Cure valley.