Église Saint-Germain des Prés
You’re standing at Église Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the parish church that grew out of a Benedictine abbey and is widely regarded as the oldest existing church in Paris. The abbey began in 558, founded by Childebert I—son of Clovis—who ruled from 511 to 558 and dedicated the house the same year. He established it to enshrine relics he acquired during the siege of Zaragoza in Spain: a fragment of the True Cross and a fragment of the tunic of Saint Vincent. That early foundation did not survive intact. The abbey was destroyed by the Vikings, then rebuilt and renamed in the 8th century for Saint Germain, the 6th-century bishop. In the 11th century the church was rebuilt again with Gothic elements, and by the 12th century it was given some of the earliest flying buttresses in the Ile-de-France. …
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