Notre-Dame de Bonne-Nouvelle

The Catholic parish church of Notre- Dame-de- Bonne -Nouvelle built at the beginning of the 19th century by the architect Étienne- Hippolyte Godde in the style of neo-classicism at the site of two previous churches. It stands in the Rue de la Lune No. 25 in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. The nearest metro stations are Bonne Nouvelle and Strasbourg Saint -Denis of lines 8 and 9, 1983, the church added to the list of French monuments as a monument historique.

History

1551 a branch church of the parish of Saint -Laurent was at the site of the present church built and the first patron Saint Louis and Saint. Consecrated Barbara ( Sainte Barbe ). Later, the church received the patronage of Notre- Dame-de- Bonne -Nouvelle ( Our Lady of the Good News ). After this church was destroyed during the religious wars, they built a new church in 1624, for Anne of Austria laid the foundation. 1673 Notre- Dame-de- Bonne -Nouvelle was elevated to parish church. From this second church bell tower is still preserved. The church was demolished in the early 19th century, as they had suffered heavy damage during the French Revolution and had become dilapidated.

The present church was built in 1823-1830 by Étienne -Hippolyte Godde ( 1781-1869 ), the city architect of Paris, of the plans for the churches of Saint - Denys -du -Saint- Sacrement in the 3rd arrondissement and Saint- Pierre- du- Gros- Caillou drafted in the 7th arrondissement. For the painting of the church famous painters were commissioned as Alexandre- Denis Abel de Pujol ( 1787-1861 ).

Architecture

Exterior

The church has a north-south orientation, since the closely built-up environment and the road layout did not allow for the usual west-east orientation. In the south east of the church, the bell tower of the original church from the 17th century rises. The facade of the church portal is designed as a peristyle and reminiscent of a temple of the ancient world. Two Doric columns and two pilasters carrying an architrave above which runs a triglyph and is topped by a triangular pediment.

Interior

The church is applied to the schema of an early Christian basilica accordingly. The nave has three aisles and divided into five bays. The nave is covered with a barrel vault and opens into a semi-circular choir that spans a half-dome. Round arches resting on Doric columns, separating the nave from the two side aisles, which are followed by twelve chapels.

Equipment

  • The choir is adorned with a grisaille of Abel de Pujol with the representation of the old men of the apocalypse that God the Father and the Lamb of God adore. Among them are housed in wooden frame paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries as
  • L' Annunciation ( preaching ), by Giovanni Lanfranco ( 1582-1647 ),
  • La bienheureuse Isabelle de France ( The blissful Isabella of France presented to the Virgin Mary, the model of the Abbey of Longchamp ), by Philippe de Champaigne ( 1602-1674 ),
  • La Vierge de entourée saints ( The Virgin of the Holy surrounded ) by Ludovico Cardi da Cigoli ( 1559-1613 ).
  • In the right aisle there are the paintings Anne d'Autriche et Henriette de France ( Anne of Austria and Henriette of France), Pierre Mignard ( 1612-1695 ) is attributed, and Sainte Geneviève du pain aux habitants de distribuant Paris assiégée ( The Holy. Genoveva distributed bread to the inhabitants of the besieged Paris) by Jean -Victor Schnetz ( 1787-1870 ).
  • In the left aisle, the painting L' Assomption ( Assumption), Georges Lallemant are attributed (around 1575-1636 ), and Saint François de Sales, Henriette d' Angleterre et ses trois enfants ( Francis de Sales, Henriette of France and her three children ), Pierre Mignard attributed.
  • The painting of the Lady Chapel are from Nicolas- Auguste Hesse (1795-1869) and represent scenes from the life of Mary ( Annunciation and Visitation ) and her parents Anna and Joachim dar.
  • The wooden sculpture of the Madonna and Child from the 18th century.
  • The sculpture of St.. Jerome from Alabaster is dated to the early 17th century.

Organ

The organ is a work of the organ builder John Albert Abbey. It was built in the late 19th century and in 1950 by Joseph Gutsche Ritter ( 1950) and restored Jean -Marc Cicchero (1988). The instrument has 19 stops on two manuals and pedal. The play and Registertrakturen are mechanical, the tracker action of the pedal pneumatic.

  • Couplers: II / I, I / P, II / P
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