Notre-Dame de Versailles

Louis XIV founded the church as the royal parish and laid its first stone himself on 10 March 1684; Jules Hardouin-Mansart built it between 1684 and 1686. Its registers hold the baptismal entries of seven kings of France, the marriage of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette and the burial entries of Louis XIV and Louis XV. The pulpit by Simon Hurtrel, the organ case by Antoine Rivet and Michel II Corneille’s Assumption over the high altar survived the Revolution. The church was classified as a historic monument in 2005. The photographs look down the nave, past Hurtrel’s pulpit, toward the choir, and show the side altar that opens this section.