Located in the Parc-aux-Cerfs district, at Versailles, the Saint-Louis cathedral was built in the mid-18th century to plans by Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne. In a style mixing baroque and classical, it houses a large number of master paintings as well as a magnificent colored glass roof installed under the Second Empire to replace the old white glass.
Inspired by the Saint-Roch church in Paris, the building unveils a facade with strongly projecting Doric columns on the ground floor and Corinthian on the first floor, with a triangular pediment. Its original bulb-shaped roof, reminiscent of central European churches, recalls, according to some historians, the Polish origins of Queen Marie Leszczynska.
A monument to the Duke of Berry, brother of Louis XVIII and Charles X who died of an injury in 1820, was built in the round in a perfect neoclassical style with a religion draped in the antique style supporting the dying. Visitors will also be seduced by the large 18th century carved oak organs. They reveal in particular Atlanteans and cupids which embellish the instrument which occupies the entire width of the vault.
