Saint-Médard

Saint-Médard stands at the foot of the rue Mouffetard. The first three bays of its nave, the spaces between its pillars, are Flamboyant Gothic, from a rebuilding begun at the end of the fifteenth century; the church was completed in 1622, and its choir was decorated in the antique manner in 1784. In the eighteenth century the grave of the Jansenist deacon François de Pâris, in the church’s cemetery, drew believers who said they were seized there by miraculous convulsions: the Convulsionnaires. Photographs from three of the visits, in 2023, 2024 and 2025, show the Lady chapel and its Virgin in a gilded glory. The visit of 29 February 2024 rests on a photograph of a poster in the street outside and on the author’s confirmation of going in.