Saint-Sulpice

Saint-Sulpice was built in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation over the remains of a small medieval church. Gamard and Gilles-Marie Oppenord both worked on it, but it bears above all the mark of Daniel Gittard, whose plans are dated 1660, and of Jean-Nicolas Servandoni, who designed the façade. It is among the largest churches in Paris, with Notre-Dame and Saint-Eustache.

In its chapel of the Virgin, the marble Virgin and Child is by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle and the sculpted decoration by the Slodtz brothers; François Lemoyne began painting its cupola in 1724, and after a fire in the chapel in 1762 the cupola was redecorated by Callet. Sculpture by Slodtz, Bouchardon, Pigalle and Boizot runs through the church, and its organs are by Cavaillé-Coll. In the chapel of the Holy Angels, commissioned in 1849 and inaugurated in 1861, Eugène Delacroix painted Heliodorus Driven from the Temple, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel and Saint Michael Vanquishing the Demon. In March 2019 a fire broke out in the south transept.

Four of eleven recorded visits, June 2022 to June 2025.