When one arrives at Les Houches, he dominates the valley facing Mont-Blanc. Whether he likes it or not, he challenges. Present on many postcards, he is the promoter of the village, whose life he rhythm to the sound of his bell, three times a day. Erected in the 1930s, it was described as “grandiose, colossal, gigantic or even monumental”, and it still fascinates us today, both from the outside and from the inside. Intended as a spiritual beacon, symbol of peace between men, it is inscribed under the title of Historical Monuments in 2020. A work of three men, the statue of Christ the King of Mont Blanc is the result of the tenacity of a parish priest, a statuary and an architect, in an international context of gigantism.
The temporary exhibition of the Montagnard Museum proposes to discover all the historical and technical aspects of this concrete giant thanks to the models, photographs, newspapers of the time and various testimonies.