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Histoire de Paris

Église Saint-Jean-Saint-François
En 1622, le financier Claude Charlot, qui spéculait sur le lotissement du Marais du Temple, installa cing pères capucins du couvent de la rue Saint-Honoré, célebres par leur dévouement de pompiers bénévoles au moment des incendies de quartier. Une modeste église fut construite sur l’emplacement d’un jeu de paume dont un mur subsiste le long de la rue Charlot. Le couvent disparut à la Révolution. L’église fut modifiée de 1828 à 1832 et son porche reconstruit par Baltard en 1855.

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Son orgue est l’un des premiers réalisés à Paris par Cavaillé-Coll en 1844. Massenet et César Franck en ont été titulaires. Sous le vocable de Saint-Jean-Sainte-Croix, elle est devenue cathédrale du rite catholique arménien.

One of the series of signs describing historical places in Paris. The signs were placed starting in 1992 and are also called sucettes Starck (Starck’s Lollipops) after Philippe Starck who designed them.

The sign describes the church whose roots are in 1623. After it was destroyed during the French Revolution, the church was renewed and expanded in 1832-1828 and in 1970 it became the Cathedral of the Armenian Holy Cross of Paris.

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Translation of the text on the sign:

[An illustration of a ship, symbolizing the symbol of Paris]

History of Paris

Church of Saint-Jean-Saint-François
In 1622, the financier Claude Charlot, who speculated on the subdivision of the Marais du Temple, installed five Capuchin fathers from the convent on rue Saint-Honoré, famous for their dedication as volunteer firefighters during neighborhood fires. A modest church was built on the site of a tennis court, a wall of which remains along rue Charlot. The convent disappeared during the Revolution. The church was modified from 1828 to 1832 and its porch rebuilt by Baltard in 1855.

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Its organ is one of the first made in Paris by Cavaillé-Coll in 1844. Massenet and César Franck were its owners. Under the name of Saint-Jean-Sainte-Croix, it became a cathedral of the Armenian Catholic rite.