The article names Stephen Viguier as planner of the apse and bell tower in 1494 and Charles Guerin as planner of the west front, begun in 1610. The choir was completed in 1537, the nave in 1584, and the church was consecrated on February 25, 1626. The infobox gives completion as 1624.
It is a hall church 226 feet (69 m) long and 84 feet (25.5 m) wide with combining Flamboyant Gothic vaults with Renaissance decoration. Its rood screen is the only one surviving in Paris, dated about 1530 in one section and 1545 in another. Victor Baltard restored the church from 1865 to 1868.
The 19th-century reliquary of Saint Genevieve holds a fragment of her original tomb. Blaise Pascal and Jean Racine are buried here. The organ case, dated 1631 in one place and 1633 in another, is described as the oldest original case in Paris.
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