Notre-Dame-de-Lorette is a Roman Catholic parish church in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Plans for a new church were made in 1821 because the neighborhood's population was growing. Louis-Hippolyte Lebas was the architect. Work began in 1823, and the church was completed in 1836. It replaced a 17th-century chapel demolished during the French Revolution.
The style is Neoclassical, and the exterior is austere, with four Corinthian columns on the facade. There is no transept, and a large triumphal arch marks the boundary between nave and choir. The coffered ceilings are gilded wood, and murals were painted directly onto the walls.
Aristide Cavaillé-Coll completed the grand organ in 1838, when he was 28. Georges Bizet was baptized here in 1840, and Claude Monet in 1841.
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