Notre-Dame de Bon-Port

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The Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Port Church, also locally known as the Saint-Louis Church, is a religious building built in 1852 in Nantes by architects Saint-Félix Seheult and Joseph-Fleury Chenantais. It was listed as historical monuments in October 1975, and the instrumental part of its organ, built by the French factor Louis Debierre in 1891, was classified as historical monuments in December 1975.

Name: Its official name is "Église Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Port", but it is also referred to as "Église Saint-Louis", with reference to Louis-Hyacinthe Levesque, mayor of Nantes during the construction of a church in 1827 (located on the north side of Place Eugène-Livet), who, as a generous donor, wished it to bear the name of its patron saint. Becoming too small to contain faithful living in a neighbourhood then under development, the construction of a new building was decided: it would be Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Port.

Location: Its main façade overlooks the Sanitat square, which is connected by Mazagran street to the Quai de la Fosse, where most of the traffic from the Port of Nantes was held at the time of its construction...