Chapelle Saint-Remi
de l’Hôpital
des Quinze-Vingts
(ancienne chapelle de la caserne des mousquetaires noirs)
28 Rue de Charenton, 75012 Paris
1986 - Benoit & Sarelot
2014 - Philippe Emeriau & Jean-Loup Boisseau
II/10 (9) - mechanical traction
Clavier I (56 notes)
Quintaton 8'
Flûte 4'
Flûte 2'
Tierce 1 3/5
Régale 8' B/D
Clavier II
Bourdon 8'
Flûte 4' (from I)
Larigot 1 1/3
Pedal (30 notes)
Douçaine 16'
Bourdon 8'
Tir I, Tir II, Tir I 4', I/II, II/I
photo of the organ: Eric Lebrun
The Saint-Rémi chapel is one of the only
remains of the former Hôtel des
Mousquetaires noirs, built in 1699-1701 by R.
de Cotte on the plans of J. Hardouin-Mansart,
and disused and sold in 1775. Cardinal Louis
de Rohan bought it in 1780 as an
administrator, to transfer the institution of
the Blind of the Quinze-Vingts, founded rue
Saint-Honoré by Saint Louis between 1254
and 1261.
The Saint-Rémi chapel, which took over the
name of the church on Rue Saint-Honoré, was
enlarged in 1789 by three bays and a tribune,
to accommodate some of the furniture from
the former chapel on Rue Saint-Honoré.
Looted and closed between 1793 and 1800, it
was then rented to the City of Paris
throughout the nineteenth century to house
the parish of Saint-Antoine, branch of the
church of Sainte-Marguerite while serving as
a chapel for the hospice.
During the reconstruction of the entire
hospital between 1956 and 1966, the nave of
the chapel was demolished and then rebuilt.
Source
The organ was made by Benoit et Sarelot in
1986 from a design by André Isoir. Originally, it
was the personal organ of Michel Chauvin,
organist of Prytanée militaire de La Flèche. The
organ was bought in 2014 by the "Centre
Hospitalier National d'Ophtalmologie des
Quinze-Vingts" and placed in the Chapelle
Saint-Remi by Philippe Emeriau & Jean-Loup
Boisseau.
Source: Eric Lebrun
Conservator
Eric Lebrun
Mass
Saturday, 5 PM (once a month)