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The Reformed Church in Le Marais

Jeudi 9 juin 2005

1939-1945
The Second World War caused the death of 18 victims in the parish; 6 soldiers were killed during the war 1939-1940 and 2 were taken prisoner, 6 civilians were killed in the bombardments, and 4 were deported by the Germans. In 1941-42, some of the persecuted Jews requested protestant baptism in the church.

1941-1946
The plasterwork in the dome was at risk of falling. The restoration made by the Historic Monuments Trust took place, and large amounts of scaffolding were used, disrupting the services to such an extent that marriages were conducted elsewhere.

1941-1967
Raymond-Henri Leenhardt was pastor in the church. There were 350-400 families in his parish. He was deeply involved with the North Africans and founded an alphabetisation school. The Welcome Centre was opened, for the Caledonians and the most deprived.

1948-1949
Discovery of the remains of XVII century paintings in the Sacristie, along with a portrait, perhaps of Jeanne Frémont, the mother of Chantal.

1954-1962
The Algerian war broke out and divided the parish.

1962-1964
The roof and facades were cleaned, and other tribunals and other accessories from the XIX century were got rid of. The church received funding from the Association of the Marais.

1979
The organ was restored by Haerpfer and de Boulay.

1979-1983
Repairs made to the dome.

1989
Modifications to the crypt. From the 1st July to the 15th September there was an exhibition in the church of "The Protestants of Paris during the Revolution 1787-1804".

1995-1997
The paintings on the roof were studied and protected.

November 1997
The 200th edition of "La Flamme", the church newsletter was published. It was started in December 1970.

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1898-July 1900
The construction and the opening of the first Parisian Metro line. The train rumbled through its tunnel not far from the church crypt.

1870-1903
Auguste Gout (1832-1903) became joint pastor in 1870, and in 1873 he became the Leading Pastor in the church. He hoped to build a closer acquaintance with the Lutherans, because the Union of Young People put pressure all at once on the St. Mary's church, and that of Bon-Secours. The liturgical service, chosen by the deceased pastor "with humiliation" for his own funeral on the 29th September 1903, was significant of the fighting evangelical spirit that he incarnated.
From 1899-1903, he was also the President of the Consistory of Paris.

13th December 1903
The church celebrated a century of protestant worship in St. Mary's. The Presbyterian advisor recounted its history.

1902-1913
Elisée Lacheret (1851-1920) became pastor over the parish. His firm evangelical convictions opposed those of Pastor Charles Wagner of the church "Foyer de l'âme, the last liberal church in Paris. He confronted and supported the new-found situation of the vote to separate the church and state of 9th December 1905; and a plaque was placed in the church in 1921 as a reminder of the homage paid to the National synod of Marseille. "In memory of he who consecrated his talents, all the power of his work, his days and his nights to ensure the freest separation possible for all services, and then for organising the Evangelical Reformed Churches."
From 1902 to 1909, the second pastor in the parish was Samuel Diény.

1906
On the 25th February the Presbyterian Association of the Reformed Evangelical Church of St. Mary's was founded.
On the 29th November there was a declaration of the Prefecture of the association of 76 Avenue Ledru-Rollin.

1909-1946
Paul Gounelle (1870-1954) was pastor. He was the son of a Methodist pastor and his three brothers were also pastors (Elie, Edmond and Théodore). Called up in the First World War as a military chaplain in Morocco, he was also chaplain to the Queen of Holland.
He was a firm partisan of evangelical doctrines. From 1927 he was the manager of Christianisme au XXe siècle (Christianity in the XX century), where practically every week he published a meditation. These have been collected in the book Aux sources de Vie, Fischbacher, 1933, and Paroles de Vie, S.E.C., 1956.

1914-1918
There were 99 deaths in the Parish during the Great War. Paul Morel, pastor from 1908-1914, disappeared around the 22nd August 1914 (read his meditations Paroles d'un Jeune, Marseille, 1920). A commemorative plaque for the dead was revealed on the 21st March 1920, with the verse "In God all are alive", Luke 20:38. In 1914 there were 22 deaths, in 1915, 38, in 1916, 15, in 1917, 8, and 1918, 13. As in the Franco-Prussian wars of 1870, the crypt served as a shelter during the bombardments of 1918.

1915-1948
Jules Dejarnac (1877-1952) became pastor. After having been a supplementary pastor from 8th April 1915, he was made the main Pastor in 1919. His ministry lasted for 27 years, in harmony with that of pastor Gounelle. His sermons were always simple, caring, and realistic, with three particularities: temperance &endash; he was president over the Parisian section of the Blue Cross-, justice, and pity. He had an special gift for pastoral visits and also had a complete knowledge of his parish. In 1917 he published a prayer book for children, and in 1927, a brochure entitled "The friend for the ill and the oppressed, a bible guide".

1923-1963
"Fraternité" (brotherhood) was published, the bulletin of St. Mary's church.

Between the two World Wars
The parish was revitalised by the wake-up missions: districts of Bercy and Le Foyer Evangélique of Ledru-Rollin were aware of a new blossoming of faith.

21st June 1931
Wilhelmina, Queen of Holland, and her daughter Juliana, born in 1909, came to the service, which was presided over by pastor Paul Gounelle. Since Pastor Marron, the pastors held the privilege of being chaplains to the Dutch embassy.

1938
The parish of St. Mary entered into the new Reformed Church of France.

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5th March 1848
The free-church Pastor Athanese Coquerel (1795-1868) gave a sermon in the church entitled "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité" which pronounced the Devise of the Republic in perfect accordance with the Gospel. He was elected in the legislative elections.

Middle of the XIX century
The Parisian Pastors, Adolphe Monod (1802-1856) and Guillame Monod (1800-1896), the sons of the Pastor Jean Monod (1765-1836), became the prime representatives and speakers of the Evangelical Movement in the capital. The plaster bust of Guillame Monod was obtained in 1909, can be found in the side chapel on the left hand side of the main entrance.

23rd May 1871
At the time of the Commune, the Versaillais destroyed a barricade of Communards situated at the opening of Petit-Musc road. The church was damaged. The main entrance door was hit by twenty-four bullets; a part of the roof fell in, and the Concierge's house was entirely destroyed.

1871-1874
Restorations to the church buildings were made by the architect Marcelin-Emmanuel Varcollier, who also constructed the vestry, built in 1868. After this, he built a little pavilion for the concierge and the building behind the Chevet on Rue Castex. Eugène Hiolle created the sculptures on the portal.

25th March 1882
Owing to the statutory law of 26th March 1852, the old single parish of the Reformed Church in Paris was reorganised into eight new districts. The new parish enclosed the III, IV, XI and XII districts of Paris, and also a section between Saint Dennis and Charenton. Two pastors led this new parish over two sections, and also a Presbyterian council consisting of six members.
In the XIX Century this district was the most highly populated, but also the most deprived of resources. The other districts were named L'Oratoire, Saint-Esprit, Pentemont, Batignolles, Plaisance, Passy and Belleville.

End of the XIX Century
The parish recuperated its annexes east of Paris; Vincennes, Charenton, Saint-Maur and Bercy. This addition meant the number of Protestants rose to 7,800 towards 1900. Exhausted by the spiritual and material poverty of the working class, the Scottish reverend Robert W. Mac All (1821-1893) was at the head of the new evangelistic movement aimed towards the conversion of those working at the ports. He created la Mission populaire (The popular Mission) in Ledru-Rollin Avenue.
The small church of Bercy can be located on rue de Saint-Maur and rue de La Lancette.

10th February 1887
The Church of St. Mary was classified as a historical building.

1889-1890
The rich co-religionists in the church offered to pay for the installation of gas in the church buildings.
There was a conflict between the Préfect de la Seine and the Presbyterian council regarding repairs to the roof of the church.
In 1883 there was a similar argument between the Presbyterian council and the local council of Paris, regarding the cleaning of the roofing.

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3rd December 1802
By the decision of First Consul Bonaparte, the church of St. Mary was changed to host a Reformed Service. Along with the church of Saint Louis of the Louvre (replaced by the Oratory in 1811) and the church of Pentemont, Grenelle road (first service held only in 1846), these three churches were the first to hold reformed services since the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the destruction of the cathedral of Charenton. Finally, the church of Billettes was given to the Lutherans in 1808. However, the Church of St. Mary is the oldest church in the contemporary history of Parisian Protestantism.

7th March 1803
Prefectorial decision settling the attribution of St. Mary to the protestant Constituency of Paris occurred.

1st and 8th May 1803
The Church of St. Mary was opened on the 1st May, by the Swiss Pastor of Bâle, Frédéric Mestrezat (1760-1807). The "opening prayers" were conducted on the 8th May by the "Ministre Saint-Evangile" and president-pastor of the Constitutional Church of Paris, Paul-Henri Marron (1754-1832): "Glory be to God in heaven! Peace on earth! Goodwill towards men!" (Inscription traced on the vaults of the church building: "Gloria in excelsis Deo et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis", Luke 2.14). In the chapels on either side of the entrance are the bronzed plaster busts of the first Pastors of the protestant church, Marron and Mestrezat.

1805
Rue Castex was built alongside the church, named after Colonel Pierre Castex (1760-1805) of the 13th Infantry regiment, who died in the battle of Austerlitz.

1807
Structural improvements were made to the dilapidated building.

1809
The Interior Minister gave St. Mary's church the organ from the Sceaux Chapel, dating from the XVIII century. It was altered in about 1895, by the House of Merklin, and was made electric in 1928.

12th December 1830
The three first French missionary pastors from the Société des Missions Evangéliques de Paris were sent to South Africa; Prosper Lemue (1804-1870), Issac Bisseux (1808-1896) and Samuel Rolland (1801-1873). They were consecrated in the Church of St. Mary on the 9th May 1950. A plaque was unveiled in the Chancel by the President of the Reformed Church in France, Marc Boegner.

2nd May 1829
National funerals were held for the Politician and writer Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) who died on the 8th December 1830. The young people in the local schools disrupted the ceremony, which was led by Pastor Anthanese Coquerel, crying "Au Panthéon!"

1834
On the church land, the house and gardens of a concierge were established.

6th November 1841
The community of the dioceses of Reuilly, founded by the Evangelical pastor of Paris Antoine Vermeil (1799-1864) and Caroline Malvesin was integrated into that of St. Mary. These dioceses participated in the activities in the parish for over a century.

5th August 1844
A law was passed that conceded the church to the City of Paris.

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1731
A contagion of small pox affected the Convent of the Visitation: eight deaths occurred in three weeks. After making vows of renewed devotion in the Sacré Coeur de Jésus Christ, the epidemic stopped. This event was heralded as a miracle.

14th July 1789
The capture of the prison of the Bastille and its following demolition started to damage the buildings of the Convent, which were built between the prison and the door of Saint-Antoine.

1790
After the council meeting of the 13-18th February 1790 pronouncing the suppression of monastic vows, the request made by the Mother Superior Anne Madeleine Chalmette to maintain the convent was rejected. An inventory of the properties was established. Owing to the Constitution Civil du Clergé, the fifty-three nuns were forced to leave the convent. The moveable property of the Convent was sold.

4 August-September 1792
The convent was closed and its buildings sold by lots.

1790-1792
The building became the deposition site for all the books belonging to all the demolished convents' libraries in the Saint Antoine quarter. The revolutionary club of the "Nomophiles" or "Amis des Lois" was formed under the fiery "Amazone de la Liberté" Anne Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt (1762-1817).
Behind and above the lateral door on the right, one can find a sculpture of a Phrygian bonnet, surrounded by laurel leaves. On the outside, on the front, survives the location of the site reserved for fixing the posters of the "Laws and Acts of the Public Authority".

1793-1794
In March 1793, and during the four months that followed, the marble and copper was torn out of the church, desecrating the burial places, and, along with the monuments, was transported in fifty-six cars to the depot at Petits-Augustins.

1795-1786
In 1795, the Nuns tried desperately to regain their convent before its final closure, but in vain. The buildings and gardens were sold for 168 000 Francs, and were later destroyed, all with the exception of the church. Under the Consulate, a constitutional priest from Bruguières took over the church.

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