The church of Saint-Gilles de Petiteville ( normandy) is devastated during the French Revolution . Once century later ,in 1892 , the building is restored by its owner Robert Gouhier de Petiteville , assisted by Christophe Édouard Mauss, the architect of the sanctuary of St. Anne of Jerusalem.
The ground is then covered by a mosaic by the famous Giandomenico Facchina (1826-1903) born as an Italian Sequals , Frioul province), who worked on the renovation of mosaics in St Mark's Church in Venice and, after settling in Paris, at the Opéra Garnier.
