Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux

The Catholic parish church of Notre- Dame-des- Blancs - manteaux goes back to the establishment of a mendicant order in the Marais district of Paris in the 13th century. The present church was built in the late 17th century in the style of the classical Baroque style. In 1983, the church was incorporated as a monument historique in the list of French cultural monuments.

The church is located on rue des Blancs - manteaux No. 12 in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. The nearest metro stations are Hôtel de Ville, Saint- Paul Rambuteau or lines 1 and 11

History

In 1258 founded the Servite, literally the servants of the Virgin Mary ( Ordo servorum Mariae ), with the support of the French king Louis the saint on the right bank of Paris, in the Marais, a branch of their order. They were brothers of a mendicant order, and wore as a sign of humility undyed robes, which is why they were referred to colloquially as " Blancs - manteaux " ( white coats ). As in 1274 at the Second Council of Lyons, Pope Gregory X., many of the newly founded mendicant orders, including the Servite ban, which Wilhelmiten received ( Order of Hermits of St. William ) whose goods and monastic buildings. Although the latter black robes wore, they retained the name Blancs - manteaux. 1618 the Wilhelmiten joined the Benedictines of the Congregation of Saint -Maur, who established their novitiate there.

In the wake of the spread of the Benedictine order were built new monastery building under the Prior Dom Antoine de Machy designed by the architect Charles Duval 1685-1690. A window in the ambulatory, the foundation stone of the present church in 1685 dar. 1863 Victor Baltard extended the church to a yoke and added the classicist portal in the south facade a. The latter was created in 1703 by Jean -Sylvain Cartaud ( 1675-1758 ) for the former church of Saint- Eloi of Barnabites on the Île de la Cité in Paris.

In the wake of the Revolution of 1789, the monastery was closed and the buildings sold. After the Concordat of 1801, the church was reopened for worship. In 1807 the city acquired the Paris Church and Notre -Dame-des - Blancs - manteaux was a parish church.

Architecture

The main portal of the church is located on the south facade. The nave extends over six yokes and flows to the north into a semi-circular closed choir. The nave is covered with an openwork of lunettes barrel vault which rests on a wide, fitted with ornate corbels surround there. On either side of the nave is arched arcades open to the narrow aisles. They rest on massive pillars, fluted pilasters which are presented with Corinthian capitals. About the arcades, which also lead to the choir, reliefs with symbolic representations of the Old and New Testaments and medallions are carved with busts of apostles and saints.

Leaded glass windows

The stained glass windows in the eastern ambulatory, were created in 1946 by Raphael Lardeur. They depict scenes from the history of the monastery represents: the founding of the monastery by Saint Louis, the takeover of the monastery by the Wilhelmiten, the foundation stone of the present church in 1685 by the Registrar Cellier, the establishment of the branch of the Carmelites in Paris by the Cardinal Pierre de Bérulle and Madame Barbe Acarie.

Organ

The organ was built by Louis Callinet ( 1786-1846 ). In 1867 it was restored by Joseph Merklin and 1964 by the Alsatian organ builder Alfred Kern & fils. The organ case was designed in 1864 by Marcellin Varcollier. The organ loft goes back to the 17th century. It rests on six columns with Ionic capitals. The instrument has 42 registers, four manuals and pedal. The Spieltrakturen are mechanically, electrically, the Registertrakturen.

• Couplers: I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P III / P

Equipment

• From the 14th century stone sculpture of the Madonna and Child comes from.
• The painting Assumption of Mary is François Perrier attributed (around 1590-1650 ). In the Baptistery are the paintings death of St.. Anna of 1640 the Nuremberg painter Joachim von Sandrart ( 1606-1688 ) and the multiplication of the loaves in 1683 by Claude Audran the Younger ( 1639-1684 ). 1970 more paintings housed here from the early 17th century, whose subjects relate to the Old Testament, for example: The meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek, Moses strikes the rock, The collection of Manna, David and Ahimelech.
• The pulpit dates from 1749 and was acquired in the 19th century. It is the work of the Rococo and probably a south German work. On boards with incrustations of wood, tin and ivory biblical scenes are presented. The acoustic cover crowned the statue of St. Michael, who defeated Lucifer. At his feet sit the four evangelists.