Annecy Cathedral ( French: ''Cathédrale Saint-Pierre d'Annecy'') is a

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located in

Annecy Annecy ( , ; frp, Èneci or ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. It lies on the northern tip of Lake Annecy, south of Geneva, Switzerland. Nicknamed ...

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. The

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is a national monument. The church was erected at the beginning of the 16th century by Jacques Rossel as a chapel for a

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priory. During the

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, the building was used as a temple of the Goddess Reason. It was raised to the status of a cathedral in 1822, when the Diocese of Annecy was established from the

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The

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of the cathedral was built by Nicolas-Antoine Lété, an organ builder of the French king, in 1840–1842.Association des amis de l'orgue - Annecy, http://www.orgue-cathedrale-annecy.fr/

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