Église Saint-Vincent-de-Paul
Église Saint-Vincent-de-Paul is dedicated to Vincent de Paul (1581–1660), whose charity work and institutions reshaped this part of Paris. The church was built between 1824 and 1844 on the site of an earlier priory of Saint-Lazare, a place that had already hosted a leper colony in the 12th century. Saint Vincent de Paul founded the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission—known as the Lazarists—here in 1625, and the same ground later became the Saint-Lazare Prison shortly before the French Revolution. During the Revolution, it held figures including Pierre Beaumarchais and André Chénier. Construction advanced with a foundation-stone ceremony on 25 August 1824 and ended with consecration on 25 October 1844, after completion by Jacques-Ignace Hittorff, architect of the Gare du Nord. Today, however, the building survives only as ruins or fragments, even though it still lends its name to the nearby Quartier Saint-Vincent-de-Paul. …
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