The Church of Saint-André-de-l'Europe is
housed in the former chapel of the convent of
the ‘Oblats de Marie-Immaculée’, built in neo-
Gothic style between 1897-1900 on the plans of
the architects Alfred Coulomb and Louis-Pierre
Chauvet. After the closure of the convent and
the expulsion of the clerics in 1901, the building
was bought in 1907 by the Archbishop of Paris.
Re-opened to the cult under the name of "Saint-
André D'Antin", it became a parish church in
1959. In 1967, the Church adopted its current
name, in reference to the quarter of Europe, at
the heart of which it is located.
Organiste titulaire
Bertrand Ferrier
Concerts
Regularly
Masses with organ
Saturday 6h30p.m., Sunday 10h45a.m.,
7p.m.
Videos
Bertrand Ferrier
The organ of Saint-André-de-l'Europe comes from the
old church of Notre-Dame Auxiliaire de Clichy-la-
Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine) doomed to demolition and
was acquired by the parish in 1995. It was first
attributed to Louis Béasse, former collaborator of
Cavaillé-Coll, due to the plate on its console. But a
recent expertise has shown that it is actually the work of
the brothers Delmotte, famous Belgian organ builders
and that it was built in 1871 for the Petit Séminaire de
Cambrai (Nord), which was estroyed during the first
world war.
This organ had originally 12 stops on two key-boards of
56 notes. 7 stops including 4 pedal stops were reserved.
In 1897 the brothers DELMOTTE completed the
instrument with 6 stops including two pedal stops. The
study of the existing pipes fits perfectly with this change.
In 1911, the organ was placed at Clichy-la-Garenne by
Louis Beasse who put his plate on the console. He
added a pedal of 30 notes (the last three notes ‘en
tirasse’) and a basson 16' on the Swell.
In 1961, Erwin Muller of Croissy-sur-Seine (Yvelines)
renovated he organ in a neo-baroque style, replacing
the Salicional 8' of the GO by a Plein-jeu III, the Basson
16’ of the Swell by a Sesquialtera II and the Flûte
Traversière by a Quarte 2' and changing the Flute
Octaviante 4' into a Principal 4' by re-cutting of the
pipes. In 1995, the Notre-Dame-Auxiliatrice was closed
then destroyed in 1997 before being replaced by a
modern church in 2000. The organ was put on sale for
one symbolic euro. In 1998, the organ was transferred
to St André de l’Europe (the old Merklin-organ was
considered 'irreparable') by Marc Hedelin of Mauvieres
(Indre), who restored the original character of the organ,
adding a trumpet (instead of the Sesquialtera II) and
new oboe at the swell, changing the Prestant 4' into a
Flute octaviante 4' again and the Quarte 2' into a Octavin
2', as previously.
During the recent restauration (2014-2016) by Yves
Fossaert, a new Plein-jeu and Doublette 2 (GO) were
made, both being copies of the same stops of the organ
of Delmotte (1891) of the Sacré-Coeur à Coudekerque
Branch.
The former organ built by Merklin around 1880. It
was the old choir organ of Ste Marie des Batignolles,
sverly modified by Bourgarel in 1963.
Photos by Serge Campione, former titulaire.