*Location:

   Église Sainte-Odile
   Av. Stéphane Mallarmé
     near Rue de Courcelles
   Paris (XVIIe), France
   LL: N 48.88691, E 2.29339

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*Carillonist:

   Mathilde Duriez
   E: mathilde.duriez@yahoo.com

   1950-98 Mlle. Jacqueline Goguet
   1970s-2012 Patrice Botteau  (d.Ja2012)

*Contact:

   Paroisse Sainte-Odile
   2, Avenue Stéphane-Mallarmé
   75017 Paris
   T: 01 42 27 18 37   F: 01 40 53 84 30
   E: sainteodile75017@gmail.com

*Schedule:

   Sundays and holidays at noon

*Remarks:

   Bells ordered in 1939, cast in 1941,
   hidden during WW II, installed 1949.
   Restored 1993 by Luc Michiel, Mechelen.
   Also 3 swinging bells.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 23 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    NONE  
   Transposition is up one octave
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The whole instrument was installed in 1949
     with bells made by Paccard      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2023

The French Wikipedia article on the building has a photo of the tower but does not mention these bells.

The church Website has a small drawing of the building, and a page about the bells.

A French-language page about the building mentions the carillon and the three swinging bells, and has a photo of the tower.

Photos of the building

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all French traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all French traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all French traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in France/Paris.

   This page was built from the database on 14-Oct-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/09/03
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/05/01