Resumen de The Cathedral of Notre-Dame-de-la- Conception, Pondicherry
When the cathedral at Pondicherry, the most ambitious in French India, was begun in 1771, its anonymous designer was obliged to make allowance for separation of the castes, despite a papal edict that they must attend public worship together. The catrhedral was completed with the construction of its west façade in 1788-91; its design was based on seventeenth-century Parisian models and is here attributed to the engineer-architect François-Anne-Marie Rapine de Saxy
