Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile stands on rue Sainte-Cécile in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Abbé Coquand led the parish, created in 1854, and helped finance the church on land he owned. He asked for a thirteenth-century style. Louis-Adrien Lusson was commissioned first, then Louis-Auguste Boileau took over the design. The first stone was laid in June 1854, and it was inaugurated at Christmas 1855.
It was the first church in France built with an entirely iron frame. The exterior is plain, with a rose window, while the interior has slender cast-iron columns, decorated woodwork and metalwork and nineteenth-century stained glass. It has no bell tower.
Viollet-le-Duc criticized the design in 1856 as a pastiche of bad taste. Jules Verne married Honorine Morel here on January 10, 1857. It became a monument historique in 1983.
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