Saint-Eustache's Church

Work began in 1629 at the initiative of Louis XIII who wished to thank the Blessed Virgin for her military victories. This building, created by Pierre Le Muet for the Augustins déchaussés who entrusted him with its construction: it was very slow, due to a lack of funds, and continued with Sébastien Bruand, R. Boudin, then Gabriel Le Duc (1663) until 1740 when it was finished by Cartaud (façade).
During the Revolution, the church, deprived of its religious members, became the headquarters of the National Lottery and then the Stock Exchange under the Directory. It was restored to worship in 1802, then erected as a basilica by Pope Pius XI in 1927. A very important devotion to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary was developed by the creation of an Archconfraternity in the 19th century by Father Desgenettes, parish priest.

"Temple of the Hymen and Fidelity" in 1795, the church was returned to worship in 1802. It was restored in the first half of the 19th century (in 1823 and again in 1843). Altarpiece of the main altar by Simon Vouet and Jacques Sarrazin.

The current building of the Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle church is the third place of worship to be built on the site. In 1551, a first chapel was built, which was destroyed in 1590 by the Catholic League during the siege of Paris by Henry IV. In April 1628, Queen Anne of Austria laid the foundation stone for a new church, which became a parish in 1673. It became national property in 1791, was sold in 1797 to three parishioners, and then bought by the city of Paris in 1803. Following the damage suffered during the Revolution, it threatened to fall into ruin and the decision was taken to rebuild it. Étienne-Hippolyte Godde, an architect for the Paris municipality who also designed the churches of Saint-Denys-du-Saint-Sacrement and Saint-Pierre-du-Gros-Caillou in the French capital, was commissioned to rebuild it.