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31 Archives Nationales, MM 600, Visites de l’Oratoire, 1742-1780, f. 4, <strong>state</strong>s that construction<br />

stopped in the 1640s.<br />

In December 1631 Louis XIII gave the congregation 900 francs for three large windows; see<br />

Archives Nationales MM 623 f. 161. The court gave the congregation ten thous<strong>and</strong> livres in<br />

1633 <strong>and</strong> 1634 for work on the church; see Archives Nationales MM 623 f. 182, 183.<br />

32 Archives Nationales MM 623 f. 115.<br />

33 The exterior elevation <strong>of</strong> the projecting rotunda had been altered by the 1889 erection <strong>of</strong> a<br />

monument to Gaspard de Coligny <strong>and</strong> by the creation <strong>of</strong> arcading along the rue de Rivoli.<br />

34 Bérulle published four books <strong>and</strong> wrote numerous other works. For an introduction to his<br />

writing, see Deville, French School, 29-57; William M. Thompson, ed., Bérulle <strong>and</strong> the French<br />

School: Selected Writings (New York: Paulist Press, 1989). For his complete works, see Pierre<br />

Bérulle, Oeuvres complètes du Cardinal de Bérulle, ed. Jacques-Paul Migne (Paris: Migne,<br />

1856).<br />

35<br />

The façade loosely follows Lemercier’s design, a version <strong>of</strong> which is in Marot’s Petit recueil.<br />

For the façade, see Gady, Lemercier, 234.<br />

36 Le Pas de Sécheval, "Politique artistique," 408.<br />

37 Archives Nationales MM 623 f. 94; “de son proper movement et sans en avoir été sollicité par<br />

qui que ce soit…prendre la notre pour server de chapelle à son château.” The royal brevet<br />

announcing the king’s decision on 23 December 1623 refers to the church as the king’s royal<br />

oratory [son oratoire royal]. The brevet was recorded in the congregation’s annals; Archives<br />

Nationales MM 623 f. 95. A royal arrêt from 17 July 1624, also recorded in the annals, refers to<br />

the church as the royal chapel [chapelle royalle]; Archives Nationales MM 623 f. 102.<br />

38 The existing chapel, dating from the fourteenth century, was destroyed when François I tore<br />

down the west wing <strong>of</strong> the medieval Louvre. For a discussion <strong>of</strong> royal chapels at the Louvre<br />

during this period, see Lawrence Robert McGinniss, "Royal Chapel Projects for Louis XIV at St.<br />

Denis, the Louvre <strong>and</strong> the Invalides, 1664-1683" (Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University,<br />

1974), 82-90.<br />

39 Ibid. The chapel <strong>of</strong> the Petit-Bourbon, an hôtel owned by the Bourbon family, was then<br />

serving as the royal chapel. It should not be confused with the Hôtel de Petit-Bourbon, which<br />

functioned as the French Oratory’s first house in the faubourg Saint-Jacques. Louis XIII<br />

announced that he would raze the chapel at the Bourbon family’s hôtel upon completion <strong>of</strong> the<br />

church <strong>of</strong> the Oratory. For the razing <strong>of</strong> the chapel, see Archives Nationales MM 623 f. 94.<br />

40 Archives Nationales MM 623 f. 94; as quoted in Ingold, Oratoire, 21-22.<br />

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