Saint Ambroise
71 bis, boulevard Voltaire, 75011 Paris
Orgue de tribune
1869 - Merklin-Schutze
196x - Gutschenritter
1980 - Picaud
1987/89 - Cicchero
2000 - Dargassies
Orgue de choeur
1896 - Merklin
2005 - Dargassies
photo GO: Jeroen de Haan
Organiste titulaire
Julien Bret
Famous organists in the past: Georges Mac Master,
Paul Silva Hérard
Concerts
Seldom
Masses with organ
Saturday 6:30 p.m.,
Sunday 9, 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Vidéos
Julien Bret
The current church was built from 1863 to 1868,
according to the plans and under the direction of the
architect Théodore Ballu, shortly after the drilling of
the "Boulevard du Prince-Eugène" (former name of the
"Boulevard Voltaire. It replaced a first church built in
the early nineteenth century.
His style is a mixture of neo-Gothic, neo-Romanesque
and neo-Byzantine, very popular at that time,
especially in the French capital.
The Great Organ was built by the Merklin-Schutze
workshops in 1869. The archives report that the buffet
was laid later after the inauguration of the
instrumental part (probably in 1870). The instrument
then underwent the interventions of Mutin,
Gutschenritter, Picaud and Cicchero. Apart from two
stops of the Positive, the instrument is entirely
authentic.