Church of Notre-Dame, Versailles of the Prussian army who fell during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Church of Notre-Dame, Versailles The Church of Notre-Dame, Versailles () is a Roman Catholic parish church in Versailles, Yvelines, France, in the Rue de la Paroisse. The church was built at the command of Louis XIV by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in the Neoclassical architectural style and was consecrated on 30 October 1686. The parish of Notre-Dame included the Palace of Versailles and thus registered the baptisms, marriages and burials of the French royal family. In 1791 it was declared a cathedral but converted to a Temple of Reason in
Palace of Versailles Queen Victoria in the Royal Opera of Versailles on August 25, 1855. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, the Palace was occupied by the general staff of the victorious German Army. Parts of the chateau, including the Gallery of Mirrors, were turned into a military hospital. The creation of the German Empire, combining Prussia and the surrounding German states under William I, was formally proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors on January 18, 1871. The Germans remained in the Palace until the signing of the armistice in March 1871. In that month, the government of the new Third French Republic,