Église Saint-Michel des Batignolles
Église Saint-Michel des Batignolles stands in Paris’s seventeenth arrondissement, where rue Saint-Jean meets passage Saint-Michel. Bernard Haubold designed the church, whose construction began in 1913 and finished in 1938. A statue of the archangel Michael rises above the bell tower, facing the surrounding Batignolles streets.
Emmanuel Frémiet created the statue as a replica of the one at Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey. A storm destabilised it in 1990, and the figure returned to the tower in 2007. This church became the area’s third dedicated to Saint Michael since 1858, after construction resumed following the First World War. Four bells, Léonie, Marguerite, Jeanne-Marguerite and Yves-Denise, received their blessing in 1933.
The church became a listed historical monument in 2016 and carries the Patrimoine du XXe siècle label. Its organ arrived from the Majestic Hotel in 1937, built by the Czech firm Rieger as a salon and cinema organ. Electric transmission, couplings and a crescendo function remain among its distinctive features.
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