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Clear glass with colored borders of flowers, arms, and cartouches became the standard treatment
in seventeenth-century Paris. For more on the treatment of glass in seventeenth-century French
churches, see Jean Lafond, "De 1560 à 1789," in Le vitrail français, ed. Marcel Aubert, André
Chastel, and Louis Grodecki (Paris: Éditions Deux Mondes, 1958), 267-69.
21 For the reserved interior as a style reflecting the reforms of the Catholic Church, see Lewine,
"Roman Church," 72-85. As Evonne Levy notes, Lewine’s thesis has been challenged by more
recent scholarship; see Alexander, "Sacred Space," 164-79; Stefano Della Torre, "Il problema del
dei riferimenti classicisti nell'architettura post-tridentina," in I Tempi del Concilio: Società
religione e cultura agli inizi dell'Europa moderna, Trento 27-30 ottobre 1994 (Trent: Camera di
commercio, industria, artigianato e agricoltura di Trento, 1995), 219-27; Evonne Levy,
"Architecture and Religion in Seventeenth-century Rome," Studiolo 2 (2003): 223.
22
For Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs, see Agnès Bos, Les églises flamboyantes de Paris XVe-XVIe
siècles (Paris: Picard, 2003), 242-47.
23 For the Bérulle family’s parish church, see Houssaye, Bérulle et les Carmélites, 81.
24 Gady, Lemercier, 235. The twentieth-century configuration of tiered wooden seats in the
tribunes blocks the original elevation, which consists of three bays, each with an arched window
topped by an elaborately sculpted frame. Above and still visible is a tall centrally placed arched
window flanked by two decorative niches.
25
For the tribunes at Saint-Gervais, which date from the third quarter of the sixteenth century,
see Bos, Églises flamboyantes, 192.
26 The paneling was transferred in 1811 from Saint-Louis-du-Louvre, a medieval church between
the Louvre and the Tuilieries that Napoleon destroyed. The cross was placed in the axial bay of
the gallery in 1930. Another change was the addition in 1821 of balconies in the chapels to
provide more seating. For these changes, see Église réformée de l'Oratoire du Louvre, 8-10.
27 Archives Nationales, MM 623 f. 111. The property belonged to Sieur Morel and Sieur de
Montreuil. No indication is given as to why the men refused to sell, but the congregation was
able to acquire the parcels of land in 1627 and in 1654.
28 Ibid.
29 Germain Brice, Description de la ville de Paris et de tout ce qu'elle contient de plus
remarquable. Reproduction de la 9e éd. (1752), 4 vols. (Paris: Minard, 1971), 227; Henri Sauval,
Histoire et recherches des antiquites de la ville de Paris, 4 vols. (Paris: Moette et Chardon,
1724), 1: 432.
30 Archives Nationales, MM 623 f. 112, written in September 1625, states that although the
church was not finished, as soon as it was in a state that could celebrate mass, people rushed to
furnish the necessary liturgical items.
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