Sainte Jeanne d'Arc Church (Besançon)

Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc is a Catholic church located in the French city of Besançon, in the department of Doubs.

The Church of Saint Martin was renovated multiple times before finally being destroyed in 1814.

During the siege of Besançon by the army of Liechtenstein, French General Jacob François Marulaz made the controversial decision to completely raze the Bregille area, including the church and the cemetery next to it.

The parish priest of Saint-Lin, Abbot Quinnez, was charged by the archbishop of Besançon Joseph-Marie-Louis Humbrecht to dedicate a building to Joan of Arc.

Mr. Dumas, a Swiss architect, drew up a new plan of the steeple (31 meters high), and the building took on a Gothic Revival architecture style.