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NotreDame de grâce de
Passy (ancienne Eglise)
10, rue de l'annonciation, 75016 Paris
Orgue de tribune
1905 - Merklin
1923 - Abbey
1930 - Convers-Pleyel
1963- Beuchet
1984 - Barbéris
1997/2005 - Dargassies
2 keyboards of 61 notes and a pedal of 32 notes
(third keyboard prepared)
Orgue d'accompagnement
1860 - Merklin
Organiste titulaire
Marc Pinardel
Concerts
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Masses with organ
Sunday at 9am (Gregorian), 10.30am
Videos
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In 1666, Claude Chahu, lord of Passy, had the first chapel
built at his own expense, which cost him nineteen
thousand eight hundred pounds. In 1672, after his
death, his widow, Christine de Heurles, obtained the
erection in parish of the chapel of Passy which until
then depended on Notre-Dame d'Auteuil. She gave eight
thousand pounds for the construction of the rectory and
gave the school an annuity. She died on November 19,
1683. His portrait in a widow's costume can be found in
the sacristy of the church. The church, first called Our
Lady of the Annunciation, became Our Lady of Grace of
Passy.
Outside, the church has a columned porch with an
eardrum decorated with a 19th century stone bas-reliefe
signed by Gumery in 1859: The Annunciation of Gumery
and above an 17th century stone statue of the Virgin and
Child.
From 1846 to 1875,the church was enlarged by the
architect Eugene Debressenne: from the primitive
church, it retained little but the pillars of the nave. A
small bell tower, built in 1846, houses the bell that dates
from 1763. From 1856 to 1859, Debressenne also built
the chapels of the Sacred Heart and the Holy Virgin.
The instrument was built by the Merklin workshops
around 1905 and installed in a two-body buffet. In 1923,
works were done by Abbey . In 1930, the Convers-Pleyel
Society electrified the organ and changed the pitch of
the organ. Stop controls were electrified in 1963.
In 1984, the organ was partially raised by Barbéris.
In 1997 and 2005, maintenance works were done by
Dargassies.
Accompanying organ
This organ, entirely expressive, was hidden on a tribune,
above the south aisles. In 1995, the organ was
dismantled by Dargassies, with the aim to transfer it to
the crypt of the church.