Sacré Cœur Basilica of "Voeu national"

View taken from the rue Utrillo

 

 

View taken from the rue du Chevalier de la Barre

On one of the pinnacles we see a bronze by sculptor François-Léon Sicard (1862-1934): Saint Michael slaying the dragon.
 

View taken from the Square Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet (in this location stood the Moulin de la Turlure) located at the corner of the rue Chevalier de la Barre (beheaded at 19 years old  in 1766 because of religious intolerance). Formerly rue de la Fontanelle and rue des Rosiers) and rue de la Bonne (situated of the fountain of Bonne-Eau disappeared in 1850).

         

The campanile of Sacré coeur finished in 1914 stands on 84 meters. Its dome contains the largest bell in France who can swing the Savoyard "Françoise Marguerite" which weighs nearly 19 tons and has a flying 850 pounds. His tone is high C. It was donated by four dioceses of Savoy and smelted in 1895 in Annecy by Paccard's company, whose fame dates from this period. Drawn by 28 horses, she arrived on the night of October 16, 1895.

Paul Abadie's architecture

In Roman-Byzantine style, it was built after a expiatory vow after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 with a national subscription and fully funded, building and decoration, by private funds. Built of limestone, which gives it its characteristic whiteness, it is 85 m long and 35m wide. The dome, where we have a unique view of Paris is 84 m high, the campanile, 94 m. The first stone was laid in 1875, the tower completed in 1914, the church was consecrated in 1919 and the building fully completed in 1923. Interior, dimly lit, is decorated with large mosaics depicting scenes and religious figures.

 


             

Square Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet (formerly Parc de la Turlure)
(r
ue de la Bonne and rue Chevalier-de-la-Barre)

View taken from Square Louise Michel (formerly Square Willette)

Louise Michel (1830-1905) was an anarchist activist and a fighter during the Paris Commune in 1871.

Adolphe Léon Willette was an illustrator painter and caricaturist (1857-1926).

View of Paris from the esplanade of the rue Cardinal Dubois.

Louis Ernest Dubois (1856-1929), archbischop of Paris from 1920 to 1929.

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