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Invalides, with its enormous St Paul’s in London. The dome is
gilded dome. An example of supported by four pillars, built by
Jesuit extravagance can be seen Guillaume Rondelet, linking four
in St-Paul–St-Louis, built in the great arches. The first colonnaded
style of Il Gesú in Rome. In façade was Giovanni Niccolo
contrast is Libéral Bruand’s Servandoni’s St-Sulpice.
chapel St-Louis-des-Invalides, Construction of this church
with its severe geometry and began in 1646 and consisted
unadorned sim plicity. Other of a two-storey portico, topped
fine Classical churches are by a triangular pediment. La
St-Joseph-des-Carmes and the Madeleine, Napoleon’s grand
18th-century St-Roch, with its temple to his victorious army,
Baroque Chapelle de la Vierge. was con structed on the ground
plan of a Greco-Roman temple.
Second Empire and
Modern
Franz Christian Gau’s Sainte- The arches of St-Jean L’Evangéliste,
Clotilde of the 1840s is the first reminiscent of Islamic architecture
and best example in Paris of the
Gothic Revival or style religieux. Finding the Places
Showy churches were built in of Worship
the new districts created by
Haussmann in the Second Chapelle de la Sorbonne p159
Empire (pp36–7). One of the Dôme des Invalides pp188–9
most lovely is Victor Baltard’s Grande Mosquée de Paris
St-Augustin, at the intersection pp168–9
of the Boulevard Malesherbes La Madeleine p218
and the Boulevard de la Notre-Dame pp82–5
Interior of the Panthéon Madeleine. Here, historic detail Panthéon pp160–61
combines with modern iron Sacré-Coeur pp226–7
columns and girders in a Sainte-Chapelle pp88–9
Neo-Classical Sainte-Clotilde p192
soaring interior space. The great
An obsession with all things basilica of the late 19th century, St-Etienne-du-Mont p159
Greek and Roman swept France Sacré-Coeur, was built as a St-Eustache p116
in the mid-18th century and gesture of religious defiance. St-Germain l’Auxerrois p117
well into the 19th century. The St-Jean l’Evangéliste by St-Germain-des-Prés p140
excavations at Pompeii (1738) Anatole de Baudot is an St-Gervais–St-Protais p103
and the influence of the Italian interesting modern church St-Jean l’Evangéliste p230
architect Andrea Palladio combining the Art Nouveau St-Joseph-des-Carmes p175
produced a generation of style with Islamic arches. The St-Julien-le-Pauvre p158
St-Louis-des-Invalides p190
architects fascinated by the modern gem of Islamic
column, geometry and engin- architecture, the Grande St-Merry p114
St-Paul–St-Louis pp102–3
eering. The best example of such Mosquée de Paris, is an St-Roch p131
churches is Jacques-Germain attractive 1920s building in the St-Séverin p158
Soufflot’s Sainte-Geneviève, now Hispanic-Moorish style. It has a St-Sulpice p174
the Panthéon. Begun in 1757, grand patio, inspired by the Tour St-Jacques p117
its colonnaded dome was also Alhambra, woodwork in cedar Val-de-Grâce p175
inspired by Christopher Wren’s and eucalyptus, and a fountain.
Val-de-Grâce St-Sulpice Sainte- Grande
Clotilde Mosquée
de Paris

Baroque and Classical Neo-Classical Gothic Revival Modern

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