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An amazing church
It is an amazing church. Passing by on a Friday night at 7, when people just want to go home or go out with friends, or shop in this busy area of Lafayette - Chaussée d'Antin. We are in the Rue d'Antin, very commercial, with a Printemps, a Citadium, one of the biggest sports shops of Paris, perpetually crowded. But so is the church! The doors are open to welcome shoppers frantically looking for a little peace of the soul, with songs in Latin, and all sing, not only grandmothers, Paris is surprising because there is not a great church culture, let alone on a Friday night, in a neighborhood of offices, with few houses around, and when it is not a special occasion.
Built in the late eighteenth century, in the new district of the Chaussee d'Antin, it was a place of sin, at that time, with women and bars. Napoleon built a parish chapel, empty buildings became the convent high school, the famous Lycee Condorcet, who trained many famous men, scientists and politicians, and remains today one of the best public schools in the capital. On this shopping street the facade of the church goes unnoticed but the interior is very cute, like a Russian Orthodox church with its painted walls.
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