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1 Today it is the parish church <strong>of</strong> Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis. In 1762 the Parlement <strong>of</strong> Paris<br />

suppressed the Society, forcing the closing <strong>of</strong> the church <strong>and</strong> its house for the religious. In 1767<br />

the royal priory <strong>of</strong> the Couture was transferred to the property <strong>and</strong> the church was named Saint-<br />

Louis-de-la-Courture-Sainte-Catherine. The French Revolution forced the closing <strong>of</strong> the priory.<br />

In 1802 following the demolition <strong>of</strong> the nearby parish church <strong>of</strong> Saint-Paul, the one-time Jesuit<br />

church reopened as the parish church <strong>of</strong> Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis.<br />

2 For the church, see Louis Blond, La maison pr<strong>of</strong>esse des Jésuites de la rue Saint-Antoine à<br />

Paris, 1580-1762 (Paris: Éditions Franciscaines, 1956); Constans, Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis; E. de<br />

Ménorval, Les Jésuites de la rue Saint-Antoine. L'église Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis et le lycée<br />

Charlemagne (Paris: Aubry, 1872); Pierre Moisy, Les églises des Jésuites de l'ancienne<br />

assistance de France (Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 1958), 248-51; Bernard de<br />

Montgolfier, ed., Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis: les Jésuites à Paris (Paris: Musée Carnavalet, 1985).<br />

Important surveys <strong>of</strong> seventeenth-century ecclesiastical architecture that discuss the church are<br />

Biver, Abbayes, 436-56; Boinet, Eglises parisiennes, 94-135; Dumolin <strong>and</strong> Outardel, Eglises de<br />

France, 136-40.<br />

3 The practice <strong>of</strong> having a Jesuit as the royal confessor was instituted by King Henri IV in 1603<br />

as part <strong>of</strong> the terms allowing the religious group to return to Paris after a period <strong>of</strong> banishment.<br />

For Louis XIII’s affection towards the Jesuits, see Robert Bireley, The Jesuits <strong>and</strong> the Thirty<br />

Years War: Kings, Courts, <strong>and</strong> Confessors (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 15;<br />

Blond, Maison pr<strong>of</strong>esse, 57. The only other interpretation is given in Le Pas de Sécheval,<br />

"Politique artistique de Louis XIII," 431-68, who uses the church as an example <strong>of</strong> Louis XIII’s<br />

participation in the <strong>arts</strong> <strong>of</strong> the Catholic renewal.<br />

4 For studies that mention the medals, see Babelon, "Architecture," 37; Mark Jones, A Catalogue<br />

<strong>of</strong> the French Medals in the British Museum. Volume Two, 1600-1672 (London: British Museum<br />

Publications, 1988), 296; Fern<strong>and</strong> Mazerolle, Les Médailleurs français du XVe siècle au milieu<br />

du XVIIe, 3 vols. (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1902-1904), nos. 699 <strong>and</strong> 819.<br />

5 Blond, Maison pr<strong>of</strong>esse, 77.<br />

6 For the history <strong>of</strong> the Parisian maison pr<strong>of</strong>esse, see ibid; Ménorval, Les Jésuites, 23-136. Pierre<br />

Delattre, ed., Les établissements des Jésuites en France depuis quatre siècles: répertoire topobibliographique<br />

publié à l'occasion du quatrième centenaire de la fondation de la Compagnie de<br />

Jésus (1540-1940), 5 vols. (Enghien, Belguim: Institut Supérieur de Théologie, 1955), 3:1259-<br />

1307.<br />

The Society <strong>of</strong> Jesus, <strong>of</strong>ficially recognized as a new religious order in 1540 by Pope Paul III,<br />

only received limited legal recognition in France in 1562. The following year the Society<br />

established its first Paris foundation, the Collège de Clermont. In 1764 the order was banned<br />

from France. For the st<strong>and</strong>ard work on the Society <strong>of</strong> Jesus in France, see Henri Fouqueray,<br />

110

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