Stone arches and pale domes on Montmartre suggest a relic from a distant age. The building that looks like a hilltop fairy‑tale chapel is in fact a twentieth‑century project, conceived after civil conflict and completed long after the medieval era it imitates had vanished.Designed in a retrograde Romano‑Byzantine style, Sacré-Cœur Basilica operates less as a surviving sacred remnant and more as a ...More