Notre-Dame de Vincennes

Jean-Baptiste Cicéron Lesueur built the church from 1829 to 1832 on the model of an antique temple, a single nave ending in a half-domed choir. It was consecrated on 25 March 1832, and Claude Naissant added the side aisles from 1859 to 1869. The photograph shows a Baptism of Christ, the largest of five windows in the Sacré-Cœur chapel, designed by Marie-Michèle Poncet and made by about a hundred volunteers; the set was inaugurated in 2019. Its inscription gives the voice from heaven in the words of Psalm 2, as some ancient copies of Luke’s Gospel do: “You are my Son, today I have begotten you.”