The Sacre-Coeur, Paris, France Postcard

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The Sacre-Coeur, Paris, France Postcard

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The Basilique Sacre-Coeur (Basilica of the Sacred Heart) is a Roman Catholic church and familiar landmark in Paris located on the highest point of the city in Montmartre.

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The Sacre-Coeur, Paris, France Postcard

The Basilique Sacre-Coeur (Basilica of the Sacred Heart) is a Roman Catholic church and familiar landmark in Paris located on the highest point of the city in Montmartre.

The site of the 19th-century basilica is traditionally associated with the beheading of the city's patron, Saint Denis, in the 3rd century. According to legend, after he was martyred, Bishop Denis picked up his severed head and carried it several miles to the north where the city of Saint Denis stands today. The hill was later home to a large Benedictine abbey, which was destroyed at the French Revolution.

After France's 1870 defeat by the Prussians in the Franco-Prussian War and its aftermath, the Commune of 1871, the basilica was planned as a guilt offering and a vote of confidence to cure France's misfortunes.

The Basilique Sacre-Coeur was designed by the architect Paul Abadie in a Romanesque-Byzantine architectural style. Its foundation stone was laid in 1875. The basilica was not completed until 1914 and not officially opened for worship until 1919, after the end of the First World War.

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