The church of La Madeleine was first started by Louis XVI in the eighteenth century. Napoleon came along in 1806 and rededicated the church as a Temple of Glory. It was designed by Pierre-Alexandre Vignon. This La Madeleine monument was then conceived of all of Napoleon’s military victories. The temple held all of his trophies from his victories also.
The exterior of the La Madeleine is an accurate reconstruction of an ancient Roman temple. It is slightly raised up off of the ground with a base like structure. The front of the monument is the only place that steps are located. The roof is peaked and the columns on the front of the building are 63’ tall. The length of the figure is 350’ and 147’ in width. The entire structure is in a rectangular shape, similar to the Greek Parthenon.
On the inside of the La Madeline, the ceiling is built in three consecutive domes. The interior and the exterior of the monument are not coordinated at all. The outside does no justice for what the inside of it looks like.
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