Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs

Rebuilt in Flamboyant Gothic in the fifteenth century on the site of a twelfth-century church, Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs reached its present form in the seventeenth. Its south doorway follows a Renaissance design by Philibert Delorme. Simon Vouet’s Assumption of the Virgin, in its great retable, the framed structure behind the high altar, is the only large altarpiece in Paris that has remained in its original place since before the Revolution. The photograph opening this section looks down the nave toward it; this one, of 21 October 2026, shows a statue of the Virgin in a side chapel.