L’église de la Madeleine (La Madeleine), is a church occupying a commanding position in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It was designed in its present form as a temple to the glory of Napoleon’s army. The site of this edifice, centered at the end of rue Royale, a line-of-sight between Gabriel’s twin hôtels in the Place de la Concorde, required a suitably monumental end from the time the square was established in 1755, as Place Louis XV. The settlement round the site was called Ville l’Évêque, for it had belonged to the bishop of Paris since the time of Philip II of France, when Bishop Maurice de Sully seized the synagogue that stood on the site from the Jews of Paris in 1182, and duly consecrated it a Church dedicated to Mary Magdalene. The site in the suburban faubourg had been annexed to the city of Paris since 1722. Add this spot to yours travel guides.
GPS tourist coordinates: 48° 52′ 12″ N, 2° 19′ 27″ E
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