Church of the Sacred Heart of Cholet-Wikipedia

L’ Church of the Sacred Heart of Cholet is a church located in Cholet in Maine-et-Loire.

The church is located in the French department of Maine-et-Loire, on the territory of the town of Cholet ^{[ first ]} , boulevard guy chasheau ^{[ 2 ]} .

This Romano-Byzantine style church ^{[ 3 ]} , strongly inspired by Christian symbolism ^{[ 4 ]} , was built between 1937 and 1941 according to the plans of the architect Maurice Laurentin ^{[ 5 ]} (1885-1959) ^{[ 6 ] , [ 7 ]} . The first stone is laid the November 7, 1937 . Louis Cesbron, then vicar of the Notre-Dame parish, invested in the “land-yellow” district. Among the great benefactors are called Doctor Sourice ^{[ 3 ]} . The abbot appeals to additional funding in an article in the Public interest of September 14, 1940 . His own commitment as a client ^{[ 8 ]} And the quests do the rest ^{[ 9 ]} . Parishioners also engage in construction of construction such as Julie Boidron, a modest house employee who has raised money from houses and cafes. The huge funds raised made it possible to finance the canopy, called “stained glass of good” ^{[ ten ]} .
The October 26, 1941 to the completion of the works M ^gr Jean Camille Coste, bishop of Angers blesses the church.

The first parish priest is Father Louis Cesbron ^{[ 11 ]} , parish priest of June 14, 1942 At December 4, 1955 .

The building was classified as historic monuments in 1991 ^{[ twelfth ]} .

In 2012, the arrow of the weakened building was the subject of a renovation which restores its luster of yesteryear. Other catering works, undertaken in 2016, restore their brightness to the stained glass windows of the monument ^{[ 13 ]} .

The Church of the Sacred Heart of Cholet has the distinction of being built with reinforced concrete dressed with local materials (mounted and assembled before pouring, having allowed the saving of provisional wooden formwork): brick, shale Orange called Pineau Pierre, pink granite from Saint-Macaire-en-Mauges and Blue Granite from Vezins. Part of the cement used is said to have been mysteriously diverted from the stocks provided for the construction of the Atlantic Wall ^{[ 8 ]} .

Through her basilical plan and her dome, she recalls the Romano-byzantine buildings. She was able to see the light of day thanks to the donations of many Choletaise families.

Several artists participated in the exterior and interior decoration of the building: Charles Maillard Parisian artist, for the modeling of sculptures, Fernand Dupré as a Choletian practitioner ^{[ 14 ]} , Charles Mauméjean for mosaics and stained glass windows ^{[ 15 ]} and Henri Genévrier – Known under the pseudonym of Great ^{[ 16 ]} – Artist folded in Cholet during the occupation. He performs the decorations and murals of the baptistery of the central door as well as the panels near the confessional ^{[ 17 ]} . Regarding the masterful work of the large interior fresco, Élie Chamard specifies that the theme had been fixed by Father Cesbron, future parish priest of this new parish: “When I have been raised from the ground, I will attract everything to me!” »» ^{[ 18 ]} .

We can notice a particular sculpture: the altar of Saint-Joseph, all in wood and in the form of a workbench, in reference to the profession of carpenter of the Father of Jesus. On this same altar, the candles are also made of wood, just like candlesticks, in the form of plans ^{[ 19 ]} .

• Statues of the entrances to the northern facade, by the Parisian sculptor artist, Charles Maillard.
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  Saint Mauril .

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  Saint Maurice .

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  Saint Louis .

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  Jeanne D’Arc .

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  Noël Pinot .

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  Montfort Grignon .

Charles Maillard, Parisian sculptor born in Cholet.

Originally, the church had a chime of 39 bells made by the Paccard d’Annecy house: symbolically 3 on the fly over 3 times 12. It is installed in 1940 under the dome whose openwork windows allow ringtures ‘Be heard from afar. He is blessed the December 15, 1940 about M ^gr Coste, in the presence of the 39 sponsors and 39 godmothers and put into office for the first time the first ^is June 1941 , on the occasion of Pentecost.
Father Cesbron offers Jacques Vilain to become the first carillonneur in post but after a certain time, the parishioners of the Jaaune district come to complain to the abbot Cesbron of the noise generated by the music of the chime in Full Sunday afternoon nap ^{[ 20 ]} . The chime remains silent and deteriorates until 2011, the date of its renovation ^{[ 15 ]} .

Since August 26, 2011 , the Sacred Heart church has a restored chime which has 10 additional bells melted by the Dutch Campanist Royal Eijsbouts. He now ranks at 16 ^{It is} Row on 113 French Carillons , with 49 bells . This chime has been classified as a historic monument since September 2003 ^{[ 21 ]} Like the church.

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  Carillon keyboard.

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  Carillon bells.

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  Main entrance.

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  East door.

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  West door.

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  Altar in the shape of a workbench dedicated to Saint-Joseph.

In summer, Cholet’s Sacred Heart can be visited. Volunteers take turns to make you discover the secrets of the building and its chime ^{[ 22 ]} .

• Louis Cesbron, from 1942 to 1955;
• Léon Quinton, from 1955 to 1971;
• Étienne Pantais from 1971 to 1977.

: document used as a source for writing this article.

• Henri Boré, The Mauges bell towers tell a long past of faith, courage and loyalty , Maulévrier, André-Hubert Hérault, 1991 , 214 p. (BNF  35502694 , Salt B06X6HS9HC ) .
• Élie Chamard, 20 centuries of Cholet History , Cholet, Farré et fils, 1970, 1981 reissue, 347 p. (BNF  34666319 ) .
• André Hubert Hérault, Maulévrier in wars: Choletaise anecdote , Maulévrier, Hérault editions, 2016 , 238 p. (ISBN  978-2-7407-0332-8 , BNF  45171434 ) , p. 214-215 .
• Augustin Jeanneau, Cholet and the Choletais after the heyday , Cholet, Les Éditions du Choletais, 1974 , 250 p. , Legal deposit: IV-1974 .
• Maurice Laurentin, ” Society of Sciences Letters and Fine Arts of Cholet: the Church of the Sacred Heart of Cholet », SLA , Cholet, Imprimerie R.Freulon, 1938-1939-1941, p. 28-11-10 .

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