St-Louis-du-Louvre
Saint-Louis-du-Louvre was a church in Paris , located in what is now the 1st arrondissement . Its original name was Saint-Thomas-du-Louvre.
history
Saint-Thomas-du-Louvre
In 1187, Count Robert I von Dreux built a church on the northern bank of the Seine , right next to a royal castle, which he had consecrated to St. Thomas Becket . The Archbishop of Canterbury , canonized in 1173, was murdered in 1170 by followers of Henry II Plantagenet , who was the worst enemy of Robert's older brother, King Louis VII of France . The building site was densely forested and was colloquially called "Wolfsbau" ( lupara ), which means that the new church was also called "Saint-Thomas-du-Louvre". Next to her, the count also had a hospital dedicated to St. Nicholas of Myra (hôpital des pauvres écoliers de saint Nicolas) built. In the following year, a medical college (Collège de Saint-Thomas du Louvre) was established under the Church. In the centuries that followed, the church was integrated into the ever-expanding palace complex of the Louvre , and eventually was located at the eastern end of the Richelieu wing.
Saint-Louis-du-Louvre
In 1739 the church collapsed and King Louis XV. gave Jean-Baptiste Pigalle the order to redesign the facade according to the plans of the architect and goldsmith Thomas Germain . The new church was completed in 1744, its patron saint and namesake was Saint Louis . The building designed by Germain was very elegant. The altar in the choir was designed by the sculptor René Frémin . On both sides of the nave there were four chapels , one dedicated to Saint Louis, the second Saint Nicolas , the third Saint Maur and the fourth was the baptismal font .
Cardinal de Fleury was buried here in 1743 . After the French Revolution in 1791, the church was rented by the new Paris city council to the “Society of People, the Protestant Religion”. On May 22, 1791, the first Protestant service in the history of Paris took place here under the direction of the Huguenot pastor Paul-Henri Marron . On December 2, 1802, the church was officially handed over to the Protestant community as a temple by consular decree.
But as early as 1806, Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte had the church demolished because it stood in the way of a planned connection between the Louvre and the Jardin des Tuileries . The building was finally destroyed in 1812.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Prosper Tarbé: La vie et les oeuvres de Jean-Baptiste Pigalle sculpteur . Vve J. Renouard, Paris 1859, p. 33 (French, online ).
- ↑ Jacques-François Blondel: Architecture françoise, ou Recueil des plans, élévations, coupes et profils des églises, maisons royales, palais, hôtels & édifices les plus considérables de Paris . Architecture - 18e siècle - Ouvrages avant 1800. Volume 3 . Charles-Antoine Jombert, Paris 1800, p. 63 ff . (French, online ).
- ^ Philippe Landru: Église Saint-Thomas-du-Louvre (disparue). In: Cimetières de France et d'ailleurs. March 8, 2009, accessed November 28, 2012 (French).
- ↑ Philippe Vassaux: De la Chapelle de l'Oratoire Hollande à du Louvre. Eglise Réformée de l'Oratoire du Louvre, accessed on November 28, 2012 (French).