Basilica of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires is located on the same street to the north of the New Bridge and Rivoli. This is one of the five churches of the Archdiocese of Paris, having an honorary status of small basilica.

His appearance basil owes military victory of Louis XIII at La Rochelle in 1628. Having defeated the Huguenots (as well as over the Huguenots supports the British), the king decided to immortalize the event construction of the church dedicated to Our Lady. Temple outlined to build a convent of Augustinian barefoot near the present street Pere Petit ("little fathers" as it is called Augustinian).

Architect Pierre Les Mouettes developed the project by the concept of the basilica, a special type of the temple of rectangular shape with an odd number of different height aisles. Louis XIII personally laid the foundation stone of the future church - it was December 9, 1629. Archbishop of Paris Jean Francois Gondi (the future leader of the Fronde) consecrated the building.

Construction ran into financial difficulties: the work due to lack of money in the treasury stopped until 1656. Since then, the project has consistently led the architects liberals Broye, Gabriel Le Duc and Jean Sylvain map. The church was completed in 1740.

Yet half a century later, during the revolution, the monastery was closed barefoot Augustinians, the church plundered. The building housed the National Lottery, according to the decision of the Convention was engaged in drawing of the property had fled from France emigrant royalists. For a while, there's not traded securities, but in 1802 Napoleon decreed the construction of a new Paris Stock Exchange (Brongniart Palace), and the building at the Petit-Pere returned to the church.

The church is in the business district, it was not enough parishioners. In 1836, the parish priest about. Charles Eleanor Dyufrishe Destenett, a temple dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary - from that moment began to flock here, pilgrims and believers. In 1927, the church received the status of "minor basilica" in Paris.

In the eastern part of the transept (transept) is a statue of the Virgin Mary with the Child, to which thousands of people carry their gifts. You can also see seven large paintings by Charles-André van Loo, "first painter" of Louis XV, on the life of St. Augustine and the siege of La Rochelle.