Church of Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais
Saint-Gervais is considered one of the first parishes on the right bank. The remains of an ancient cemetery and a vast Merovingian necropolis discovered around Saint-Gervais would explain the age of the foundation. The church was consecrated in 1420, then enlarged from 1494 until about 1620. The facade is the first of a church to use the classical vocabulary of orders in a monumental way, in accordance with the ancient fashion that prevailed in the 16th and 17th centuries. It was closed in 1793 and reopened in 1795 and shared between Catholics and theophilanthropists until the Concordat. On Good Friday, March 29, 1918, a German shell destroyed part of the nave in the middle of the mass, killing about a hundred people.