Saint-Michel des Batignolles

Permission to build came only in 1913. Work began at once and was interrupted by the First World War; the bell tower was completed in 1934, crowned by a gilded copy of Emmanuel Frémiet’s archangel at Mont-Saint-Michel. The architect, Bernard Haubold, built in brick and reinforced concrete in a Romano-Byzantine style, and much of the colored decoration he planned was never carried out. The church was listed as a historic monument in 2016. The photograph looks down the brick nave to the painted apse.