Église Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, the former convent of the Dominican general novitate, was begun in Classical style in 1682 and completed nearly a century later by a monk, Brother Claude, in 1769 by a facade in Jesuit style. At the onset of the Revolution, it became a parish but was shortly closed. The church hosted Pope Pius VII for a mass on December 26, 1804, when he came to Paris for the sacring of Napoleon.
The Dominicains tried in vain to reclaim their convent butthe buildings had been transformed into a Museum of Artillery, housing old weapons. It remained property of the Army after the transfer of the collection to the Invalides.
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