Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas

Rebuilt from 1675 under the direction of Daniel Gittard, Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas was consecrated on 6 May 1685. The astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, a parishioner, is buried here. Its photographs, among them the one that opens this book, show a white interior of round columns and rib vaults, with an ambulatory leading to the Lady chapel that Libéral Bruant designed in 1687.