No. 7

    Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet

    23 rue des Bernardins, 5e

    The west organ case of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet
    11 October 2018, 15:17.

    Begun in 1656 to plans by Michel Noblet and François Levé, the church was completed only in 1763, and its main front only in the 1930s. It keeps the funerary monument of Charles Le Brun, carved by Antoine Coysevox. Traditionalist Catholics led by François Ducaud-Bourget took over the church in 1977; since 1983 it has been served by priests of the Society of Saint Pius X. The photograph from the first recorded visit, on 11 October 2018, shows the west organ case and its statues.

    Recorded visits

    Six recorded visits.

    • 11 October 2018
    • 21 March 2019°
    • 10 March 2023
    • 14 June 2023
    • 2 June 2025
    • 7 June 2025

    Sources

    Le Chardonnet, parish bulletin no. 325, Feb 2017; University of Notre Dame, architecture image archive; BnF catalogue; POP Mérimée PA00088418; POP Joconde 50350019941; Larousse, Journal de l’année 1977 (secondary). Canonical status, in the counting rules: decree of the Vatican’s doctrine office of 2 July 2026 declaring the Society of Saint Pius X in schism, as reported by NPR and the Associated Press, 2 July 2026.

    Photographs: Lud

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