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The Church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (French: église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, pronounced [eɡliz sɛ̃t maʁi madlɛn]), or less formally, La Madeleine ([la madlɛn]), is a Catholic parish church on Place de la Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
The first church was destroyed by the Vikings and rebuilt. The present church was consecrated in 1163, and is considered the oldest church in Paris. The flying buttresses, from the 12th century, were the first on a Paris church. [15] It was named for Saint Germain, an early Bishop of the city. Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs: 254 rue Saint Martin
Madeleine Cemetery [1] (in French known as Cimetière de la Madeleine) is a former cemetery in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and was one of the four cemeteries (the others being Errancis Cemetery, Picpus Cemetery and the Cemetery of Saint Margaret) used to dispose of the corpses of guillotine victims during the French Revolution.
Saint Francis of Assisi Church, Paris; Église de Marie-Médiatrice-de-Toutes-les-Grâces ou Sanctuaire Notre-Dame-de-Fatima Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption des Buttes-Chaumont Église Notre-Dame-des-Foyers Église Sainte-Claire (Paris) Église Sainte-Colette des Buttes-Chaumont Saint Francis of Assisi church, Paris)
The Boulevard Malesherbes (French pronunciation: [bulvaʁ malzɛʁb]) is a boulevard in central Paris, France, running northwest between the Church of the Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement, and the Porte d'Asnières in the 17th arrondissement.
La Madeleine, Paris (Église de la Madeleine), a church in Paris Église de la Madeleine (Besançon) , Doube département , France, a church Cathedral of the Madeleine , Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, a Roman Catholic cathedral
A world-famous ballet school has agreed a legal settlement with a woman who claimed she developed an eating disorder as a result of body-shaming while studying there.
The church was built between 1860 and 1871 by the Paris city chief architect Victor Baltard. It was the first church in Paris to combine a cast- iron frame , fully visible, with stone construction. It was designed to provide a prominent landmark at the junction of two new boulevards built during Haussmann's renovation of Paris under Napoleon III .