200 Churches in Paris and elsewhere

 Information in English Saint-Germain_l%27Auxerrois Information in French  Eglise_Saint-Germain-l%27Auxerrois_de_Paris  Information in Spanish  Iglesia_de_Saint-Germain-l%27Auxerrois_de_Par%C3%ADs  Information  in Chinese   https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Just across the road from the Louvre museum, I bet this church is often missed. But it is well worth a visit. The "Father of French journalism" is buried here : he died in 1653, and there is still a  literary award named after him.  ( see  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9ophraste_Renaudot  ) There is also a very pretty "VIP pew" in here, and a lovely wall collection box. The first church on the site was destroyed by the Vikings in the 9th century. The present one almost got demolished in the 19th century renovation of  Paris. Apparently, the bells of this church were used to call people to attack the protestants on the night of the terrible Saint Barthelemew massacre in 1...

Information en français ici  https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89glise_Saint-Roch_de_Paris Information in English here  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Roch,_Paris En espagnol ici  https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_de_San_Roque_(Par%C3%ADs) Auf deutsch https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St-Roch Some nice baroque ceilings and altars, a very beautiful pulpit, and the tombs of the great landscape gardener Le Nôtre (think Versailles) and the great tragedian Corneille. Apparently there is also the  18th century encyclopedist Diderot, but I missed him! The Stations of the Cross, in relief, are quite unusual and impressive, too.