Church of Saint-Roch

The Church of Saint-Roch is a church located in the.

History
The Saint-Roch serves as the final resting place of three notable thinkers, Denis Diderot, the  and Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, as well as the prolific landscape architect, who designed the park of the Palace of Versailles, the Champs-Élysées and the gardens of the.

In 1763, the Marquis de Sade was married with Renée-Pélagie Cordier de Launay inside the Saint-Roch. During the French Revolution, the church was often the site of violent events and shootings which damaged its facade, such the 13 Vendémiaire insurrection of 1795, when rebelling royalist forces were chrushed by Napoleon Bonaparte.

Reference

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