St-Paul-des-Champs
The Parisian Saint-Paul des Champs church was located at 32 rue Saint-Paul in the 4th arrondissement.
In 635, Saint Eligius , Bishop of Noyon , founded a basilica on the right bank of the Seine outside Paris, on the border with the marshes ( Marais ) , which he dedicated to Saint-Paul-de-Tebaide, but which soon became Saint- Paul hors les Murs (outside the walls) or Saint-Paul-des-Champs (in the fields).
The church was destroyed by the Normans in 845 and rebuilt in the middle of the 13th century (now as a church for the settlement developing here) and added towers. Since the construction of the city wall by King Philip II (1190–1209), the place and church have now been within the city. It was the rue de Jouy which, coming from the Porte Baudoyer , ran towards the church.
King Charles V built the Hôtel Saint-Paul in the immediate vicinity from 1361 to 1364 after he had bought up the land in the area and made it his residence after the Palais de la Cité was no longer safe enough for him. As a result of this move, the church of St-Paul became the parish church of the French kings and remained so until 1555. It was therefore enlarged and consecrated in 1434 by Jacques du Châtelier, Bishop of Paris . King Henry III (ruled 1574–1589) had mausoleums built here for his Mignons Quélus and Maugiron (who had perished in the duel of the Mignons in 1578 ) and for Saint-Mégrin , which were destroyed in a popular uprising in January 1589. Other tombs were those for Rabelais († 1553), Saint-Sorlin († 1676), Adrien Baillet († 1706), Huet († 1721), and the brothers Jules Hardouin-Mansart de Jouy († 1766) and Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne († 1776).
Closed in 1790 during the Revolution , it was partially demolished in 1799. There is only one wall surface of the bell tower, as this also represents the gable of the adjacent building. The stones were reused in new buildings, for example in the Boulevard de Bonne-Nouvelle 21 building. The name of the church was taken over from 1802 by the former Jesuit church, simply called St-Louis until the Revolution, when it was under the double in 1820 after the Concordat of 1801 patrozinium St-Paul-St-Louis took over the task of the parish church.