Saint-Pierre-du-Gros-Caillou is a Roman Catholic parish church located at 52 Rue Dominique in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, completed in 1733. It takes its name from a large boulder, or Caillou, which marked the limit between the parishes of the abbeys of Saint-Germain des Prés and Sainte-Genevièce.
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Saint-Pierre-du-Gros-Caillou is a Roman Catholic parish church located at 52 Rue Dominique in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, completed in 1733. It takes its name from a large boulder, or Caillou, which marked the limit between the parishes of the abbeys of Saint-Germain des Prés and Sainte-Genevièce.
== History == The population of the 7th arrondissement grew rapidly in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, overcrowding the main parish church, Saint Sulpice. A new church was proposed as early as 1652, but the construction did not begin until 1733, when the first stone of the new church was laid. As the neighbourhood continued to grow, it was rebuilt in 1755 following the designs of the young architect Jean-François Chalgrin, whose future works would include the Luxembourg Palace and the first design for the Arc de Triomphe When the French Revolution broke out, the church was still unfinished, and incomplete structure wa demolished.
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