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Histoire de la Compagnie de Jésus en France: des origines à la suppression (1528-1762), 5<br />

vols. (Paris: Picard, 1910-1925).<br />

7 The church <strong>and</strong> its placement parallel to the street is recorded on the Plan de Vassalieu (1609),<br />

a copy <strong>of</strong> which is at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.<br />

8 Claude Malingre, Les antiquitez de la ville de Paris Contenans la recherche nouvelle des<br />

fondations & establissemens des eglises. La chronologie des premiers presidens, aduocats &<br />

procureurs generaux du Parlement. preuosts des march<strong>and</strong>s & escheuins de ladite ville. (Paris:<br />

P. Rocolet, 1640), 662.<br />

9 Dumolin <strong>and</strong> Outardel, Églises de France, 136.<br />

10 Archives Nationales S 1014 contains contracts for the Society’s purchase <strong>of</strong> houses.<br />

11 Blond, Maison pr<strong>of</strong>esse, 92-93. The control <strong>of</strong> the abbey was turned over to the Jesuits in<br />

1638.<br />

12 Folio 256 r. from register 797 <strong>of</strong> the Archives des Affaires étrangères records an unspecified<br />

amount <strong>of</strong> royal funds being given for work at Saint-Louis-des-Jésuites from 1627 to 1629; folio<br />

reprinted in Edouard-Jacques Ciprut, "Notes sur quelques travaux au Louvre en 1627-1629,"<br />

Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français (1954): 182-83.<br />

13 Montgolfier, ed., Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis, 20. For a monograph on Martellange, see E.-L.-G.<br />

Charvet, Étienne Martellange, 1569-1641 (Lyon: Glairon-Mondet, 1874).<br />

14<br />

Apart from a few minor changes in access to the sacristy, the plan <strong>of</strong> the church remains the<br />

same today.<br />

15 Martellange was most likely replaced due to the pr<strong>of</strong>essed fathers’ vocal dislike <strong>of</strong> the original<br />

façade. For the debate over the façade, see Pierre Moisy, "Martellange, Der<strong>and</strong> et le conflit<br />

baroque," Bulletin monumental 110 (1952): 237-61.<br />

16<br />

Blond, Maison pr<strong>of</strong>esse, 61. Saint-Louis-des-Jésuites is 61 x 28 meters while the Gesù is 70 x<br />

36 meters.<br />

17 For eighteenth-century authors who claimed that Martellange used the Gesù as his model, see<br />

Brice, Description 2:186; Jean Aimar Piganiol de la Force, Description historique de la ville de<br />

Paris et de ses environs, 10 vols. (Paris: Libraires associés, 1765), 5:4. For a twentieth-century<br />

author who <strong>state</strong>s the plan reproduces that <strong>of</strong> the Gesù, see Boinet, Églises parisiennes, 105.<br />

18 Louis Hautecoeur notes that this type <strong>of</strong> plan owed its popularity to the manner in which it<br />

allowed for the liturgical needs <strong>of</strong> the Catholic Reformation rather than the renown <strong>of</strong> the Gesù.<br />

Specifically, it allowed for clear, unobstructed views <strong>of</strong> the high altar, provided ample room for<br />

people to hear preaching, <strong>and</strong> made available numerous altars at which to say mass. For a<br />

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