Église Saint-Eustache

This guide to Église Saint-Eustache in Paris begins on January 15, 1622, when an infant was carried through a side door of a church still unfinished after nearly ninety years of building and baptized as Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, the boy who would become Molière. It follows him back decades later as a grown playwright marrying in the same nave, and gathers other figures the church has held: Louis XIV's first communion, the composer Rameau's grave, a Keith Haring bronze in a side chapel. Stand near the font to start where the story does.