Eglise
Saint-Augustin
The Saint-Augustin Church is a huge vessel representative of ultimate
religious constructions néo-baroques in the capital, during
second half of the XIXth century, Second Empire time. Built in 11
years since 1860, this modern and very light church, was made by the
architect Baltard in the district formerly called "Small Poland". This
is the heart of XIIIth arrondissement between the Plaine Monceau and
Saint-Lazare Station. The new Haussmanien layout gives to the
capital in restoration its contemporary pace. Large streets are
opened called "boulevards". It is often significant to install
imposing monuments on the strategic places with the crossing of these
boulevards. For that reason the site of this church was selected,
at the place of an old precarious vault. Face to the Military
Circle, the Church Saint-Augustin throne on a very open position very
rare for the the few older churches usually screwed in the old streets
of Paris. Beyond the cocktail of Romane influences, byzantines, Gothics
of which it testifies, the characteristic of this church lies in its
metal framework covered with stone signed Baltard, which enables him to
claim with dimensions of a cathedral with its 94 meters length.
Nevertheless, it remains light as testifies the three immense openings
to them to its frontages which would have been technically impossible
to realize with the Middle Ages and its vast stained glasses boring the
walls of the three stages. The organ was built by Cavaillé-coll
in 1899.
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