Notre-Dame-de-Compassion

On 13 July 1842 Ferdinand-Philippe, duc d’Orléans and eldest son of Louis-Philippe, was fatally injured near the Porte Maillot when the horses of his carriage bolted and he fell to the road. His parents bought the house where he died and had Fontaine build a memorial chapel on the site, with windows made from drawings by Ingres. When the Palais des Congrès was built, the chapel was moved stone by stone a short distance to its present place. The photograph shows the apse, where a marble Pietà attributed to Henri de Triqueti after a design by Ary Scheffer stands between two of the windows made from Ingres’s drawings.