#sacre-coeur basilica

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4 Days in Paris: Montmartre’s Bohemian Spirit Highlights Day 4

The Musee de Montmartre’s collections on display in the apartments and gardens capture the bohemian spirit of Montmartre © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com By Karen Rubin, Travel Features Syndicate, goingplacesfarandnear.com On my last day in Paris (I have cleverly booked an evening flight from Charles De Gaulle airport), I just want to lose myself in Montmartre. Perched high above Paris…

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Paris Part 2...

Eiffel Tower {Photo 1}

Temple de l'Amour {Photo 2}

Paris view from the Cheval Blanc hotel rooftop {Photo 3}

Jardins du Château de Versailles {Photo 4}

Montmartre {Photo 5}

Musée d'Orsay {Photo 6}

Musée Yves Saint Laurent {Photo 7}

Panthéon {Photo 8}

Château de Versailles {Photo 9}

Sacré-Cœur Basilica {Photo 10}

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Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre à PARIS

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Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre—Paris, France 2016

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📍Montmartre,Paris,France. The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris.🇫🇷⛪️

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The Basilica of the Sacré Coeur in Montmartre

Paris, France

©cpleblow (2023)

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Le repentir est le dernier profit que l'homme tire de sa faute.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Sacre-Coeur was commissioned by the French National Assembly in 1873, following the tumultuous year of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune. It was in this period that France had suffered a humiliating military defeat, Emperor Napoleon III fled into exile, Paris itself had been under siege, and the riotous period of the Paris Commune that followed caused thousands of deaths and destroyed many buildings - including the Tuileries Palace and the Hotel de Ville. Sacre-Coeur was the initiative of Alexandre Legentil and Hubert Rohault de Fleury as the saw the defeat of France was a spiritual one. They vowed to build a church dedicated to the Sacred Heart “as reparation” (i.e. as penance for infidelity and sin) for they held that the misfortunes of France had spiritual rather than political causes.

In a still-controversial decision in 1873, the National Assembly voted to use the highest and most visible land in the city to "expiate the crimes of the Commune". The angry debate about the church was indicative of the schism in the French social order, with royalists and reactionary Catholics on one side, and democrats, socialists and rationalists on the other. The bishops of the Catholic Church supported the idea of course, but it was opposed by many others, including French president Georges Clemenceau. The work was funded from donations - in many cases modest - collected throughout France, the names of the donors being carved in the stone.

The first stone of the Sacré-Coeur, whose construction was laid on 16 June 1875. A stone extracted in Seine-et-Marne in the Château-Landon quarry, about 25 km south of Fontainebleau, which was used at the beginning of the 19th century for the construction of the Arc de Triomphe. Its characteristic ? This stone is self-cleaning. For the construction of the basilica was not chosen the limestone of Paris, extracted since Antiquity in a quarry of the Oise. The architect of the Sacré-Coeur preferred to call on the quarry of Souppes-sur-Loing, in Seine-et-Marne, and its “Château-Landon” stones. In contact with rainwater, the cullet, a thin protective layer that naturally coats the stone, secretes a white substance which hardens in the sun.

Even as the foundation stones were finally laid in 1875 ongoing political debates slowed progress. One fractious debate of 1880 called the basilica a provocation to civil war and proposed reversing the 1873 decree that granted the property rights for the church. In the end, at least five different architects were involved in completing the design; construction was not completed until 1914 - just in time for World War I. Sacre-Coeur took longer to complete than did the Parthenon in Athens.

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The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris/Sacré Coeur, Paris, France

Stephanie LeBlanc

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View from the Steps of Sacré-Coeur Paris, France May 16th, 2022

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The Sacre Coeur over the rooftops of Paris

The Basilica of Sacré Coeur de Montmartre (Sacred Heart of Montmartre), commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica and often simply Sacré-Cœur, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica in Paris, France, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It was formally approved as a national historic monument by the National Commission of Patrimony and Architecture on December 8, 2022. The basilica was designed by Paul Abadie, whose Neo-Byzantine-Romanesque plan was selected from among seventy-seven proposals. Construction began in 1875 and continued for forty years under five different architects. Completed in 1914, the basilica was formally consecrated in 1919 after World War

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100 years ago:

Paris - France (by alchen_x) 

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©️, 2023, Shirley Melgar.

Montmartre and Sacré-Cœur Basilica. My friends and I visited Montmartre, a tourist area with insanely beautiful views and plenty of steps. When we first got there, we had to go up the famously known, never-ending Montmartre metro station steps, with 176 spiraled steps in total. I was unaware of the amount of steps I was going to go through in just one day but it was worth the experience.

Our first stop was the viral photo booth, Fotoautomat. The wait was not long and the pictures were perfect. Nearby to the photo booth was the Café des Deux Moulins from the movie Amélie, which is a nostalgic and memorable movie for me and I had a great time visiting a spot where some scenes were filmed.

Lastly, after many steps, we got to the Sacré-Cœur Basilica. The view was wonderful and we got to look at the sunset as we enjoyed sweet crepes. The fences that surrounded the Basilica had tons and tons of locks with engraved initials representing love between two people. The love locks transmitted love all over Montmartre, making it one of the most romantic places I have ever visited.

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La Basilique du Sacré Coeur de Montmartre à Paris, FRANCE

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Paul Abadie, Basilica of Sacre-Coeur, Montmartre, Paris, France, 1876.1910

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Abadie

[booserina]

Paris Memories. Locked in Love at the Basilica of Sacré Coeur de Montmartre. 🔒❤️