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sacre-coeur-montmartre.com /english / The Basilica of Sacré Cœur de Montmartre ( English : Sacred Heart of Montmartre ), commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica and often simply Sacré-Cœur ( French : Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre , pronounced [sakʁe kœʁ] ), is a Catholic church and minor basilica in Paris dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The stone for the statue of Saint Genevieve and the Pont de la Tournelle (1928) on which it stands both came from the quarry of Souppes. All of the quarries of the valley were engaged in providing stone for the Basilica of Sacré Coeur on Montmartre at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. The quarries were a major industry ...
Paul Abadie (Jr.) was born on 9 November 1812 in Paris, France. [3] He was the son of Paul Abadie Sr., who was also an architect in France.He entered the School of Fine Arts (École des Beaux-Arts) in 1835; under the direction of the Monsieur Achille Leclère.
Montmartre (UK: / m ɒ n ˈ m ɑːr t r ə / mon-MAR-trə, [1] [2] US: / m oʊ n ˈ-/ mohn-, [2] [3] French: [mɔ̃maʁtʁ] ⓘ) is a large hill in Paris's northern 18th arrondissement.It is 130 m (430 ft) high and gives its name to the surrounding district, part of the Right Bank.
This statue, sculpted from Lens stone, is to be seen in the Jesuit chapel Claude de la Colombière in Paray-le-Monial. Apart from Delamarre's statue the church also holds Henri Charlier's statue of the "Sacré-Coeur" and another of Père de la Colombière. The plaster depiction of St-Ignace was shown at the 1933 "Salon d’Automne".
The church houses various heritage items such as the statues of two saints, Saint Maurus and Saint Mortus, who is the patron saint of the Cointe district. The secular memorial houses several monuments and works donated by the Allied nations.
The arcades have rounded arches and pilasters with trompe-l'oeil channelling, joined with columns with Corinthian capitals, carved of travertine stone, and decorated with sculpted foliage and angels. The most unusual feature is the Chapel of the Souls in Purgatory, painted in trompe l'oeil in the 18th century to give it the illusion of depth.
This stone built much of the city, but it was extracted in suburban locations away from any habitation. Because of the post 12th-century haphazard mining technique of digging wells down to the deposit and extracting it horizontally until depletion, many of these (often illicit) mines were uncharted, and when depleted, often abandoned and forgotten.