The Church Notre-Dame-des-Champs (Church of our lady of the Fields) is located on the Boulevard Montparnasse. The area adjacent to the Latin quarter, in the course of the centuries combined buildings with fields and meadows, hence the name.

About this place in ancient times was the temple of mercury. After the Christianization of Gaul, the Church was dedicated to the virgin Mary, in X-XI centuries there was a monastery here. In the eleventh century king Robert the Pious decided to rebuild the monastery Church – it is called Notre-Dame-des-Champs. The monastery was at first a Benedictine, Carmelite then – it was here under the name of Louise merciful for thirty-six years lived in the former mistress of Louis XIV, Louise de La Valliere. During the French revolution and the monastery and Church were destroyed, but preserved in human memory.

In 1858 the parish of Notre-Dame-des-Champs was restored. At first, the Holy Mass was served in a wooden chapel. But in 1867, was laid the first stone of reviving the Church. The construction was entrusted to the architect Paul-rené-Leona gine, chosen for the building of the Romanesque style. The Church was consecrated and opened its doors to parishioners in 1876.

How many churches were built in Paris in the Second Empire, the building rests on a steel frame, designed by Gustave Eiffel. This gave the possibility to apply a high arch and create a huge space with two rows of light arches supported by cross-shaped pillars. In this space the eye easily finds twenty-two paintings by the artist Jacques Auber, depicting scenes from the life of the virgin. The painter spent on the job eighteen years of life. The picture is absolutely accurate ethnographically: Ober specially several trips to Palestine to observe the everyday life of women in the Holy Land.

Very interesting here standing the way of the Cross of the Savior: artist Frederik de Kursi did them in the technique of grisaille enameled on copper. The work was exhibited in the Salon of 1879.

Chapel of the virgin decorated with a splendid statue of the virgin Mary with a Baby in her arms, sculpted by Alfred Adolf Leper. Baby Jesus holds in his hands the crown of thorns that He has to wear. His face thoughtfully. The lady looks at the sky, Her eyes full of tears.