Eglise 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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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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This 18th century mansion was originally built as two houses in 1643 by Birçonnet. In 1713 they were replaced by a hôtel, built by Thomas Gobert for the widow of Denis Feydeau de Brou. It was passed onto her son, Paul-Espirit Feydeau de Brou, until his death in 1767. The hôtel then became the residence of the Venetian ambassador. It was occupied by Belzunce in 1787 and became a munitions depot during the Revolution until the restoration of the monarchy in 1815. Until recently it housed the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, now in Strasbourg, where a high percentage of the elite in politics, economics and science were once students.
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François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher died at No. 27 Quai Voltaire, which at the time was Hôtel de la Villette, on May 30, 1778. St. Sulpice, the local church, refused to accept his corpse on the grounds of his atheism and his body was rushed into the country to avoid a pauper's grave. His tomb is now located in the crypt at the Pantheon. The site has housed Restaurant Le Voltaire since 1939.
Formerly part of Quai Malaquias, then later known as the Quai des Théatins, the Quai Voltaire is now home to some of the most important antiques dealers in Paris. It is also noted for its 18th-century houses, where many famous people from Oscar Wilde, Count Tessin, James Pradier, Louise de Kéroualle, Richard Wagner , Jean Sibelius, and Charles Baudelaire lived.
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