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visitation chapel

the visitation chapel great example of french baroque style, walls painted toussaint largeot , completed in 1662, during celebrations organised jesuit father named claude-françois ménestrier, beatification of francis de sales. chapel contains altarpiece in golden wood started executed in 1622 generosity of françois de bonne de créqui, grenoble’s military governor, lesdiguières’ grandson. altar realised 1 century later sculptor françois tanzi, coming tuscany, in 1747, on occasion of beatification of jane de chantal. small lateral chapel decorated pictures telling life of francis de sales.

in 1890, inhabitants of grenoble wanted have protective virgin, existed in other cities, named notre-dame-d’en-haut. architect alfred berruyer, realized basilica @ la salette, important local pilgrimage place, built against chapel 30 meters high tower (98,5 ft) surmounted statue of virgin in golden cast-iron 36 meters (118 feet) high , weighed 1,8 tons. below statue, 4 other ones located in angles, 12 meters (39 feet) high, represented 4 saints protecting city : saint bruno, saint ferjus, saint francis de sales , saint hugh. whole building inaugurated on october 25, 1891, in presence of bischop, eminence fava. few decades later, building caused dangerous cracks in chapel’s vault , close crolling. reason, demolition decided in 1935 , completed on january 18, 1936. 4 sculptures disappeared, apart 1 of saint francis de sales found again in 2007, in garden of former private clinic.

the chapel listed on historical register on june 19, 1936.