Cathédrale Saint-Louis

Louis XV decided on the church in 1742 and laid its first stone on 12 June 1743. Its architect, Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne, was the grandson of Jules Hardouin-Mansart. It was blessed on 24 August 1754 and consecrated in 1842, a century after the work began. It keeps the great organ of Louis-Alexandre Clicquot and his son François-Henri, which survived the Revolution, and paintings by François Boucher. It was classified as a historic monument in 1906. The photograph shows the Lady chapel: a white Virgin and Child in a gilded glory, between windows of the Annunciation and the Assumption made at the Sèvres manufactory after designs by Achille Devéria and installed in 1848.