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The Church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (French: église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, pronounced [eɡliz sɛ̃t maʁi madlɛn]), or less formally, La Madeleine ([la madlɛn]), is a Catholic parish church on Place de la Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
The Boulevard de la Madeleine (French pronunciation: [bulvaʁ də la madlɛn]) is one of the 11 original grands boulevards of Paris, France, a chain of roads running in a semicircle on the right bank of Paris where the city's defensive walls used to be located. The boulevard is named after the nearby Église de la Madeleine. ___
The Théâtre de la Madeleine (French pronunciation: [teatʁ də la madlɛn]) is a theater in Paris built in the English style in 1924 on the site of a carousel.The first major success of the theatre came with the presentation of part one of The Merchants of Glory by Marcel Pagnol.
[2]: 35 It is named after the nearby Église de la Madeleine, which was dedicated to Mary Magdalene in the 18th century. A small settlement had grown up in the district by the 6th century around a stronghold of the Bishop of Paris. It was known from an early date as la Ville-l’Évêque ("Town of the Bishop").
La Madeleine, Paris: Place de la Madeleine, (8th arrondissement of Paris) Neoclassicism (1764–1806) Begun by Louis XV in 1764 to decorate the end of the new Rue Royale, leading to the redesigned Place de la Concorde.
Mary Magdalene's alleged skull, displayed at the basilica of Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, in Southern France. Mary Magdalene's bone, displayed at La Madeleine, Paris. The relics of Mary Magdalene are a set of human remains that purportedly belonged to the Christian saint Mary Magdalene, one of the female followers of Jesus Christ.
La Madeleine, a parish in Faycelles in the Lot département; see Liberty Tree; La Madeleine, a village in Guérande in the Loire-Atlantique département; Madeleine (river), in eastern France; Col de la Madeleine, a high mountain pass in the Alps in the department of Savoie in France; Madeleine cemetery (Cimetière de la Madeleine), Paris, a ...
The Rue Royale (French pronunciation: [ʁy ʁwajal]) is a short street in Paris, France, running between the Place de la Concorde and the Place de la Madeleine (site of the Church of the Madeleine). The Rue Royale is in the city's 8th arrondissement. Rue Royale following Commune destruction. Photograph by Alphonse Liebert, 1871.