This pulpit is the work of Jean Nicole (1680 or 1691 - 1742), an artisan carpenter and sculptor from Tonnerre, parishioner and churchwarden of Saint Pierre, where he will be buried.
Commissioned with great precision in detail by the fabriciens de Saint-Pierre in December 1712, and completed in record time towards the end of 1713, it cost the parish 100 livres and 15 feuillettes de vin.
The upper part is of good, honest workmanship, and the decorative elements of the pilasters and brackets - vine leaves and bunches of grapes - are of great elegance.
But it is the panels of the gallery that are its centerpieces.
Treated as bas-reliefs and carved from a mass of oak planks, they represent the 4 evangelists with their traditional attributes (from right to left): Saint John and the eagle, Saint Mark and the lion, Saint Matthew and the angel, Saint Luke and the ox.