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July 27, 2008
Périgueux 240322 24000
Dordogne Aquitaine
45.185 0.721 90 m

Saint-Front Cathedral ornementation.

Retable of XVIIe century
Saint-Front cathedral

The monumental chandeliers which light the cathedral were used to illuminate the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris at the time of the marriage as Napoleon III on January 29, 1853.
Paul Adadie, architect of the cathedral, conceived and make manufacture from 1851 to 1853, the five chandeliers from 3 to 4 m height and a weight from 300 to 400 kg.

The organ, built by Merklin-Schutz for the World Fair of 1869, was bought for the cathedral Saint-Front, and was restored in 1998 and was supplemented of an organ case absent in the beginning.

The retable baroque of the chorus, of XVIIe century, represents all the events of the life of the Virgin Mary, carved in oak and walnut tree. It includes 3 bodies separated by 4 twisted columns.

The Cathedral Saint-Front of XIIe century, and its five cupolas of Byzantine style, was initially the church Saint-Front until 1669, of the name of an evangelist of the area in IIIe century.

At the XIXe century, architecture took as a starting point the Byzantine architecture. From 1852 to 1895, the Saint-Front cathedral is restored by, inter alia architects, Paul Abadie, (student of Viollet-le-Duc), architect also of the basilica of the Sacré-Coeur in Paris. Only the bell-tower of XIIe century is preserved.

The cathedral is registered since 1998 with the World heritage of Humanity within the framework of the ways of St-Jacques-of-Compostelle.

Périgueux is a french commune, located in the department of the Dordogne of the Aquitaine region, populated of 30193 Pétrocoriens, distributed on 10 km², that is to say 2960 hab./km².

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