France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart
Subtitle: An Epic Tale for Modern Times (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: September 4, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780520221369
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); European studies; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History - General History; Christian Denominations And Sects; Religion; Europe; History of doctrines; Europe - France; History / General; Church history; Christianity - History - General; Cults; France; Sacred Heart, Devotion to
First sentence: ON ONE OF MY FIRST VISITS to Paris, a solicitous friend-who also happened to be a distinguished historian of modern France-graciously took me on a tour of historic sites around the city.
Description: "Raymond Jonas tells the 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 constructs the history of the devotion responsible for the basilica, beginning with the reputed 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."--BOOK JACKET.