OUR LADY OF THE MENUS CHURCH
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For the little story, in the year 633, a boat came aground on the sands of the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer. At the same time, the Virgin appeared in a chapel in the high city. It revealed to the faithful the presence of a statue on the boat failed to its image, and asked that it be brought to erect a new church in its honour. The Boulonnais actually discovered on site a statue of wood representing a Virgin to the Child Jesus. In January 1308, Philippe IV the Bel who went to Boulogne for the wedding of his daughter, Isabelle of France, with Edouard II of England learned history and, to return to Paris, wanted to build a church near Paris, dedicated to the Virgin, on the model of the Boulogne-sur-Mer, to create a raccourcy pilgrimage. This was where the church of Boulogne-Billancourt was born. The precious building was ransacked under the Revolution, its plundered and scattered riches, its architecture and its degraded scenery. The architect Eugene Millet (1819-1879) began, since 1860, to restore the building favouring the architecture of the th century, company a transept, raised an arrow and added a span to the nave.
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