Notre-Dame-du-Travail

Jules Astruc built Notre-Dame-du-Travail between 1899 and 1901. He kept a Romanesque style outside, but the nave, unsuspected from the street, is an exposed framework containing 135 metric tons of iron and steel, while the porch and choir turn the eye toward the neo-Romanesque apse. Two side galleries recall the churches of the Basque Country, home of the parish priest of the time, the abbé Soulange-Bodin. The church was classified as a historic monument in 2016. The photograph of 2023 looks down that nave, its iron frame left bare.