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Versailles
Cathedral
(French:
Cathédrale
Saint-Louis
de
Versailles)
is
a
Roman
Catholic
church
located
in
Versailles,
France.
It
is
a
national
monument.
It
is
the
seat
of
the
Bishop
of
Versailles,
created
as
a
constitutional
bishopric
in
1790
and
confirmed
by
the
Concordat
of
1801.
It
was
built
as
the
parish
church
of
Saint
Louis
before
becoming
the
cathedral
of
the
new
diocese.
The
building
is
of
the
mid-18th
century:
the
first
stone
was
laid,
by
Louis
XV,
on
12
June
1743
and
the
church
was
consecrated
on
24
August
1754.
The
architect
was
Jacques
Hardouin-Mansart
de
Sagonne
(1711-1778),
a
grandson
of
the
famous
architect
Jules
Hardouin-Mansart.
In
1764
Louis-François
Trouard
added
the
Chapelle
de
la
Providence
(now
the
Chapelle
des
Catéchismes)
to
the
northern
transept.
During
the
French
Revolution
it
was
used
as
a
Temple
of
Abundance,
and
badly
defaced.
It
was
chosen
and
used
as
the
cathedral
by
the
post-Revolutionary
bishop,
who
preferred
it
to
the
church
of
Notre-Dame
in
Versailles,
which
had
been
the
choice
of
the
preceding
constitutional
bishop.
Its
consecration
as
a
cathedral
was
however
severely
delayed,
and
was
not
performed
until
1843,
by
the
diocese's
third
bishop,
Louis-Marie-Edmond
Blanquart
de
Bailleul.
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