Église Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet
In Église Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet, a parish in Catholic Paris once named for a landscape of chardons—thistles—stood on a site where a chapel had been built in 1230, as a dependence of the Abbey of Saint Victor. Construction of the “present church” began in 1656, under architects Michel Noblet and François Levé, but it was only finished in 1763 after a shortage of funds. The classical-style façade was designed by Charles Le Brun, and the earlier complex survived in part: a bell tower, built sometime before 1600, remained from that older church. French Revolution damage later destroyed the church’s art, but new 19th-century works followed—among them a rare religious painting by Jean-Baptiste Corot. On 27 February 1977, traditionalist priest Monsignor François Ducaud-Bourget led followers into the church from the nearby Maison de la Mutualité, and the Society of St. Pius X then ran services there, celebrating Traditional Latin Masses. …
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