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Title: Monuments in Paris


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MOST VISITED MONUMENTS IN PARIS
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  • Sacré-Cœur
  • It is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica,
    committed to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Paris,
    France. A mainstream milestone and the second
    most visited landmark in Paris, the basilica
    remains at the culmination of the butte
    Montmartre, the most elevated point in the city.
    Sacré-Cœur Basilica is over each of the a strict
    (Catholic) building, appeared by its interminable
    love of the Holy Eucharist since 1885, and is
    likewise observed as a twofold landmark,
    political and social, both a national atonement
    for the annihilation of France in the 1870
    Franco-Prussian War and for the communist Paris
    Commune of 1871 delegated its most defiant
    neighborhood, and an exemplification of
    traditionalist good request, freely committed to
    the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which was an
    undeniably well known dedication since the dreams
    of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque in
    Paray-le-Monial.

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  • The motivation for Sacré-Cœur's plan began on 4
    September 1870, the day of the declaration of the
    Third Republic, with a discourse by Bishop
    Fournier ascribing the thrashing of French
    soldiers during the Franco-Prussian War to an
    awesome discipline following "a time of good
    decay" since the French Revolution, in the wake
    of the division in French society that emerged in
    the decades following that unrest, between ardent
    Catholics and legitimist royalists on one side,
    and democrats, secularists, communists, and
    radicals on the other. Paris Monuments
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