Our Lady of Victory Church

Located before the Second World War at the top of the course of the Bôve, the church of Saint-Louis, bombed in 1943, is rebuilt at one of the corners of the Place Alsace-Lorraine. It was consecrated in 1955 under the title of Notre-Dame-de-Vice. The building was designed by Jean-Baptiste Hourlier and adopts the granite cladding and height of the buildings in the square. Past the monumental entrance portico, the contrast with the rigor of the exterior is striking. The space is bathed in light, the gaze runs along the high concrete pillars to rise up to the dome where appears in star the imprint of the wooden formwork. Jean-Baptiste Hourlier and the artists around him, play with sobriety on materials: concrete glazed beatitudes, teak wood panelling, frescoes, marble flooring, colored glass blocks and raw concrete, whose nobility is fully claimed here.