Saint-Denys-du-Saint-Sacrement

Saint-Denys-du-Saint-Sacrement was begun in 1826, under the Restoration, when the Bourbon monarchy had returned to the throne of France, and completed in 1835. It follows the style of a Roman basilica. It holds Eugène Delacroix’s Pietà, the Virgin holding the body of Christ, of 1844, painted in wax in seventeen days. The murals are by Abel de Pujol, and the high altar is the work of the contemporary artist Marc Couturier.