Choisy Cathedral

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Saint-Louis-et-Saint-Nicolas de Choisy-le-Roi Cathedral is a church built in Choisy-le-Roi by Ange-Jacques Gabriel on the order of Louis XV to replace the old church, too small and too close to the Seine. It depends on the diocese of Créteil and is dedicated to Saint Louis and Saint Nicholas. It is classified as historical monuments on November 7, 1975.

History: The new church was to be at the heart of the new village projected in 1746. In 1748 Gabriel gave two projects: the first with a Tuscan order inside and outside, the second, which was realized, without this order. The absence of order makes the originality of this church, where sober monumentality is reached by the work of surfaces. Louis XV laid the first stone on 4 July 1748. The bell tower is detached to the right of the nave and has only two levels (while the first project planned three). As a result, the bells, very low, did not carry very far, which the villagers complained about in the 18th century. The anecdote according to which Louis XV had prohibited the use of bells is unfounded (only glas was prohibited during royal stays). The church is consecrated...