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1 For studies that view the church in this manner, see Louis Blond, Notre-Dame des Victoires et
le Voeu de Louis XIII: Origine et publication du Voeu (Paris: Presses Modernes, 1938); G.
Breffy, Notre-Dame des Victoires (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1925); Edouard Lambert, Notice
historique sur l'église de Notre-Dame des Victoires (Paris: Curot, 1872). For general surveys of
the church, see Biver, Abbayes, 204-22; Boinet, Eglises parisiennes, 152-72; Dumolin and
Outardel, Eglises de France, 143-45; La Basilique Notre-Dame des Victoires. Sanctuaire Marial
au coeur de Paris, (Paris: La Basilique Notre-Dame des Victoires, s.d.).
2 Le Pas de Sécheval, "Politique artistique,” 429-30. Le Pas de Sécheval’s analysis of Louis
XIII’s support of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires is limited to two pages, precluding any in-depth
discussion of the topic.
3 Martin Schieder, "Fondation royale et temple des arts: L'église Notre-Dame-des-Victoires à
Paris," in Place des Victoires: Histoire, architecture, société, ed. Isabelle Dubois, Alexandre
Gady, and Hendrik Ziegler (Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 2003), 197-
213.
4 Barbiche, "Augustins déchaussés."
5 For the history of the reformed Augustinian order, see ibid., 1-12; Pierre Thomas Nicolas
Hurtaut, Dictionnaire historique de la ville de Paris et de ses environs, 4 vols. (Geneva: Minkoff
Reprint, 1973), 1: 346-51; Lambert, Notice historique, 3-14.
6 Marguerite de Valois was the daughter of King Henri II and the first wife of Henri IV.
7 For reasons that are not clear, in 1612 Marguerite de Valois broke the contract that she had
made with the Augustins Déchaussés, forcing the fathers to return to monasteries in Avignon and
Villars-Benoît. Possible causes were the princess’ aversion to the fathers’ vigorous evangelism
and violations in the contract; see Barbiche, "Augustins déchaussés," 17.
8 For the construction history, see ibid., 329-31. The other architects known to have worked on
the church in the seventeenth century include Libéral Bruant, most likely in 1656, and Gabriel Le
Duc in 1663.
9 The first person to suggest this is Father Isidore de Sainte-Madeleine, who wrote a history of
the monastery in the eighteenth century. The original manuscript burned, but Edouard Lambert
had previously made a copy of it. For the copy, see Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris,
ms. CP 3548. For later scholars agreeing with this statement, see ibid., 26; Schieder, "Fondation
royale," 203.
10 This room is the only existing part of the monastery, which was destroyed in 1858.
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For the work of Rebillé, see Schieder, "Fondation royale," 205. The dome was not built due to
the high cost of constructing it.
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