France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart

France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart

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Jonas Raymond
University of California Press
EAN: 9780520221369
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In a richly layered and beautifully illustrated narrative, Raymond Jonas tells the fascinating and surprisingly little-known story of the Sacre-Coeur, or Sacred Heart. The highest point in Paris and a celebrated tourist destination, the white-domed basilica of Sacre-Coeur on Montmartre is a key monument both to French Catholicism and to French national identity. Jonas masterfully reconstructs the history of the devotion responsible for the basilica, beginning with the apparition of the Sacred Heart to Marguerite Marie Alacoque in the seventeenth century, through the French Revolution and its aftermath, to the construction of the monumental church that has loomed over Paris since the end of the nineteenth century. Jonas focuses on key moments in the development of the cult: the founding apparition, its invocation during the plague of Marseilles, its adaptation as a royalist symbol during the French Revolution, and its elevation to a central position in Catholic devotional and political life in the crisis surrounding the Franco-Prussian War. He draws on a wealth of archival sources to produce a learned yet accessible narrative that encompasses a remarkable sweep of French politics, history, architecture, and art.
EAN 9780520221369
ISBN 0520221362
Binding Hardback
Publisher University of California Press
Publication date September 20, 2000
Pages 323
Language English
Dimensions 229 x 152 x 28
Country United States
Readership Professional & Scholarly
Authors Jonas Raymond
Illustrations 56 b-w photographs
Series Studies on the History of Society and Culture