Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul

Louis Le Masson, an engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées and a pupil of Ledoux, began the church in 1790, during the Revolution, on an elliptical plan under a dome. In 1868 one of its long sides was opened to enlarge it, which changed the church’s orientation; a four-column portico under a triangular pediment stands at the entrance. The church was listed as a historic monument in 1971, all but its bell tower. Inside hangs Édouard Debat-Ponsan’s Saint Paul Preaching before the Areopagus, of 1876. The photograph shows the dome, the portico and the bell tower; the visit inside rests on the author’s confirmation.