Église Saint-Paul - Chapelle Sainte-Marguerite
Romanesque church rebuilt across three generations after Revolution-era ruin, with a hidden fifteenth-century fresco chapel.
This guide to Eglise Saint-Paul - Chapelle Sainte-Marguerite in Lyon follows three generations of one Lyon architect family who inherited a church left in near-ruin after the Revolution, when soldiers packed the nave with sacks of saltpeter for gunpowder. You'll hear how the work passed from father to son to grandson through most of a century, recutting worn stone and rebuilding the west front and spire. Along the way it traces the young inspector Prosper Merimee's report on a building on the edge of collapse, and the portal later carved to show Paul thrown from his horse on the road to Damascus.
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