Chapelle Notre-Dame de

l'hôpital du Val-de-grâce

1, place Alphonse Laveran, 75005 Paris

Val-de-Grâce is a former abbey and nowadays a military hospital. The church was completed in 1667 and designed by François Mansart and Jacques Lemercier. It is probably the finest example of baroque architecture in Paris. Since the Benedictine nuns provided medical care for injured revolutionaries during the French Revolution, the church was not badly damaged during the revolution. The old abbey alongside the church is now a museum of French army medicine.

C1 The organ was built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll in 1853, for the church of Sainte-Geneviève, which became the Pantheon again in 1885. The organ was then transferred to the Val-de-Grâce by Merklin. He installed a new console and a Barker machine. In 1927, works were done by Paul-Marie Koenig: • completion of the bass of the Récit • construction of a 30-note pedal • completion of the pedal stops • addition of the follwing stops: cromorne, nazard, voix céleste, tremolo, bombarde 32 acoustic (Récit), octave graves GO/Récit • (in 1946) addition of a Cornet II to the Récit in place of the acoustic bombarde, which went to the Pedal. Classified as a historical monument in 1979 for its instrumental part, it was restored in 1993 by François Delangue and Bernard Hurvy. Koenig's additions were undone, with the exception of the addition of the bass of the Récit. Site of the organ

1852 - Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1) 1891 - Joseph Merklin (6) 1927 - J.M. Koenig (2) 1993 - François Delangue et Bernard Hurvy (4)

II/22 - mechanical traction

composition

An old photo of the organ at his original location: the Panthéon.

Organiste titulaire Hervé Désarbre Suppléant: Yannick Merlin Organiste célèbre ayant illustré l’instrument par le passé: Auguste Durand, Clément Loret et Léon Laumonnier. Concerts First Sunday of the month october - june, 5:30 AM Masses with organ Sunday, 11:00 AM Videos Yannick Merlin Photo organ case: Pierre Marteau