Saint Ambroise

71 bis, boulevard Voltaire, 75011 Paris

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Organiste titulaire Julien Bret Famous organists in the past: Georges Mac Master, Paul Silva Hérard Concerts Seldom Masses with organ Saturday 6:30 PM, Sunday 9, 11 AM and 6:30 PM Vidéos Julien Bret photo GO: Jeroen de Haan

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.

C3 The Great Organ was built by Merklin-Schutze in 1869. The archives report that the case was installed later after the inauguration of the instrumental part (probably in 1870). The instrument underwent an intervention by Mutin (date and detail of the operations unknown), then Gutschenritter, who added an ‘octave grave’ to the Récit. In 1980, revision of the wind tunnel and adjustment of the mechanics by J. Picaud. In 1987, J-M. Cicchero replaces almost all the kernels of the reeds; in 1989 he restores the missing rank of the Fourniture of the Great Organ. Two original stops of the Positive were removed at an unknown date: the Clarinet, replaced by a Piccolo 1, and the Doublette, in favor of a Tierce. In 2000, the instrument was restored by Dargassies. He replaced the Tierce with a Doublette and the Piccolo with a Plein Jeu IV.