Saint Louis Chapel of the Military School

Name: Saint Louis Chapel of the Military School
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T19:00:00+02:00
Location: École militaire

The Saint Louis Chapel of the École militaire presents a unique collection of paintings depicting the life of Louis IX. It is also marked by the passage of Napoleon I and John Paul II.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Access on presentation of a piece of ID from the age of 16 (ID card, passport or new driver’s license). Free or guided tours (registration on site). Possibility of lunch on site.

Registration

Register / book: https://www.paris-ecole-militaire.fr/fr/forms/journeeesuropeennesdupatrimoine170922 Register / book: https://www.paris-ecole-militaire.fr/fr/forms/journeeesuropeennesdupatrimoine180922

Dedicated to Saint Louis, the chapel of the Military School presents a unique collection of nine giant canvases tracing the life of Louis IX. The altar, whose decoration is due to Caffieri, takes the form of a tomb. The communion grid was made by Fayet.
The young Napoleon Bonaparte received the sacred confirmation there in 1785. Open to worship until the Revolution, the chapel then served as a warehouse and was not returned to its normal use until 1950. Pope John Paul II came to pray there on June 2, 1980, during his first visit to France. We can still see the Prie-Dieu on which he knelt.

Open house.
Choir at 15:00 on Sunday 18 September.
Opportunity to pre-register online for faster access to the Military School entrance:
I am pre-registering for Saturday, September 17 (by clicking on the first registration link).
I am registering for Sunday, September 18 (by clicking on the dex registration link).

About the location

École militaire

1 place Joffre 75007 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

Louis XV, at the instigation of the Paris brothers and Madame de Pompadour, set his sights on the plain of Grenelle, a former Garenne, which was part of the Sainte-Geneviève abbey and part of the Hôtel des Invalides in order to create a military school. Ange-Jacques Gabriel was chosen to design and ensure the construction of the buildings. In 1773, the work was completed. The royal courtyard is framed by porticoes with Doric columns on the ground floor and Ionic upstairs. The central body or castle dominates it without ostentation, decorated with colossal Corinthian columns and surmounted by a quadrangular dome. In 1780, the architect Gabriel being 82 years old, the architect Boullée, then the architect Théodore Brongniart who completes the work and finishes in particular the side pavilions of the castle. In 1787, the school was definitively closed. Its premises were assigned to the Hôtel-Dieu. The Revolution first established a flour depot and hand mills there, and in August 1792 the