Notre-Dame-des-Champs

The first Notre-Dame-des-Champs stood near the Val-de-Grâce, in what is now the rue Pierre-Nicole; Robert the Pious gave it to the Benedictines of Marmoutier, it passed to the Carmelites in 1604, and it was sold and destroyed at the Revolution. The present church, to plans by Léon Ginain, was begun on 17 March 1867, inaugurated on 31 October 1876 and consecrated in 1912; its metal frame came from the Eiffel workshops, and Joseph Aubert’s cycle of the life of the Virgin was commissioned in 1889. The photograph of 28 June 2024 shows a white statue of a woman saint in a painted niche.