A religious building located in the 7th district of Paris, at 23 bis Las Cases Street, the Basilica of St. Clotilde and St. Valerie is one of the five minor basilicas of the capital. Built in the mid-nineteenth century, it is now listed as an historic monument.
Designed by the architects François-Christian Gau and Théodore Ballu, the church was erected as a basilica in 1897 on the occasion of the fourteenth centenary of the baptism of Clovis, whose second wife is the patron saint. Neo-Gothic style, it is indicated by two arrows high of nearly seventy meters. Inside, you can admire beautiful stained glass windows or a series of William's sculptures representing the conversion of St. Valerie, death sentence or decapitation.
The one that hosted the baptism of Gaston d'Orléans or the funeral of the journalist Thierry Roland harmoniously dominates the square Samuel-Rousseau appreciated for its chestnut trees and trees of Judea.
