Opera in the church

  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.