Church of Notre-Dame de la Salette, Paris Church of Notre-Dame de la Salette, Paris The Church of Notre-Dame de la Salette in Paris is a Roman Catholic church located rue de Cronstadt in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. It is under the patronage of Our Lady of La Salette, particularly revered by the religious congregation of St. Vincent de Paul. The first chapel was built by the Brethren of Saint Vincent de Paul in 1858. The Catholic congregation founded in 1845 by Jean-Léon Le Prévost, Clement Myionnet and Maurice Maignen, had established an orphanage in this area. After the healing of three of their orphans, the clerics
Le Ventre de Paris Le Ventre de Paris Le Ventre de Paris (1873) is the third novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series "Les Rougon-Macquart". It is set in and around Les Halles, the enormous, busy central market of 19th-century Paris. Les Halles, rebuilt in cast iron and glass during the Second Empire was a landmark of modernity in the city, the wholesale and retail center of a thriving food industry. "Le Ventre de Paris" (translated into English under many variant titles but literally meaning "The Belly of Paris") is Zola's first novel entirely on the working class. The protagonist is Florent, an escaped political