La Rochelle Cathedral, the Cathédrale Saint-Louis, was planned by Jacques Gabriel, who had died by the time construction began in 1742, and his son Ange-Jacques Gabriel supervised from a distance. The first stone was laid in 1742, and it was consecrated in 1784 while still incomplete. The infobox gives completion in the 19th century. The article names no client.
The infobox lists Classical, and the text calls it a rather bare Neo-Classical structure. A cupola carries paintings by the La Rochelle native William Bouguereau. The late medieval Gothic bell tower of the former St. Barthélémy church, first built in 1152, is attached to the chevet.
Huguenots destroyed the rest of the medieval St. Barthélémy church in 1568. The diocese was created in 1648. During the French Revolution a church on the site was entirely destroyed, and the site was redeveloped with houses. The article gives no hours.
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