Chapelle de l'île Royale

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The chapel of Île Royale is a historic monument of Guyana located in the city of Cayenne on Île Royale. The site is classified as a historical monument by order of 5 December 1979, as amended by order of 27 June 2000. The chapel of Île Royale is a place of worship in the French Guiana. It was inaugurated in 1855. It is located on the upper plateaus of the island, near the cell block, the ward of the overseers and the administration buildings. This chapel is visited as one of the tourist places of the bagne. It owes its fame to the paintings of its walls and the guardrails of the gallery, made from 1938 to 1941 by Francis Lagrange, a bagard convicted of fraud and forgery, who is an artist and forger. In the chapel of Île Royale, Lagrange painted, in Sulpician style, representations of scenes from the New Testament: the Annunciation, the Nativity, Jesus preaching and the prodigal Son, as well as a Ave Maria and a Mater dolorosa and a frieze of characters at the foot of the Cross.

The paintings then deteriorated, attacked by the equatorial climate, termites and vegetation. In 1983, the most fragile elements...