Notre-Dame des Sommets, Montaud
di Andy Bryant
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View over Montaud from the Notre-Dame des Sommets, erected by the father Emile Neraud, former missionary in Ethopia and pastor of Montaud from 1950 to 1953. Statue stands on the spot of a former wooden cross placed in 1833. The statue is a Madonna and child, and is >2.5m high, sculped by a Mr Fachini from Lyon from a block of white limestone. The cost of the monument was funded by the people of Montaud through fairs, donations etc, and through the sale of some disused assets of the church. The blessing of the statue was held on Sunday 15th July 1952.
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French history goes back to the Gauls, a Celtic tribe which inhabited the area circa 300BC until being conquered by Julius Caesar.
The Franks were the first tribe to adopt Catholic Christianity after the Roman Empire collapsed. France became an independent location in the Treaty of Verdun in (843 AD), which divided up Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire into several portions.
The French monarchy reached its zenith during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King, who stood for seventy-two years as the Monarch of all Monarchs. His palace of Versailles and its Hall of Mirrors are a splendid treasure-trove of Baroque art.
The French Revolution ended the rule of the monarchy with the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!" On July 14th, 1789 angry mobs stormed La Bastille prison and began the Revolution in which Louis XVI, his wife Marie-Antoinette and thousands of others met the guillotine.
One decade after the revolution, Napolean Bonaparte seized control of the Republic and named himself Emperor. His armies conquered most of Europe and his Napoleonic Code became a lasting legal foundation for concepts of personal status and property.
During the period of colonization France controlled the largest empire in the world, second only to Britain.
France is one of the founding members of the European Union and the United Nations, as well as one of the nuclear armed nations of the world.
Text by Steve Smith.
