If you stand in the rue Musette and look up slightly, you will see the Jacquemart family. It stood on the top of the belfry in Courtrai (Belgium) before Philip the Bold, in punishment for a rebellion by the Flemish population, had it dismounted, crated up, and brought to Dijon in 1382. He gifted it to his good town which, not having a belfry, placed it on the top of Notre-Dame. In the seventeenth century, the people of Dijon decided to bring him some cheer in his solitude by giving him a wife (Jacqueline). A son (Jacquelinet) followed in 1716 and a daughter (Jacquelinette) in 1881.

In the rue de la Chouette, a small stone owl nestles above one of the piers. Everybody "touches" the wise old owl and makes a wish. Whenever things are going wrong, people will say to you : "Have you tried stroking the owl ?".