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ST. LOUIS CHURCH

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40, route de Versailles, 78560Le Port-Marly, France
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2024
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2024

Neo-classical church built by Etienne Legrand, located on the road that goes down from Marly-le-Roi to the Seine

Its majestic facade, entirely renovated in 2019, is a real eye-catcher on the road down from Marly-le-Roi to the Seine. It is a curious story that the church of Port-Marly, which was in a way the origin of the town. Perhaps too preoccupied with trade, the inhabitants of the port of Marly in the 18th century hardly ever went up to the church of Saint-Vigor, at the top of the hill, to attend services. Concerned about their salvation, the Dauphin, son of Louis XV who died prematurely, intended to build them a church closer to their home. The project was taken over and carried out by Louis XVI. It was Étienne Legrand who built this neoclassical masterpiece from 1778 to 1780. The king offered for the church a Christ on the cross from his castle in Marly, and endowed the church with a presbytery, a school and a cemetery. For her part, the Countess of Barry offered the statues of the four Evangelists. But the creation of this second church in Marly complicates things: quarrels over the bell tower, precedence, taxes, lead to a dissociation into two parishes, each with its own parish priest. During the Revolution, the two parishes became two communes, and the town of Port-Marly separated from its upper confrere.

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