Église de la Madeleine
Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine—often simply called La Madeleine—began as a royal project tied to Paris’s reworking of Place Louis XV, the present Place de la Concorde. In 1763, Louis XV laid the first stone for a new church planned as the focal point of Rue Royale, and the dedication followed in 1764. Work then stalled because of the French Revolution, but Napoleon Bonaparte later had the building redesigned in the Neoclassical style, aiming to turn it into a monument to the glory of his armies. After Napoleon’s fall in 1814, construction resumed as a Catholic parish church and was not completed until 1842. Today, the church sits on Place de la Madeleine with Corinthian columns on all four sides, and its interior is distinguished by frescoes on the domed ceiling and monumental sculptures by François Rude and Carlo Marochetti. …
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