An oratory stood here in the 6th century. Around 1120 the site went to Cluniac monks of Longpont Abbey, and the article says the church was built under Louis VII. A new church was begun in 1165 to 1170 on the older foundations, and the choir and probably the nave were finished around 1210 to 1220. No medieval architect is named. It began as Romanesque, and most of it is Early Gothic. The choir has six-part rib vaults, and the piers replicate those of Notre-Dame.
The upper nave was rebuilt in the 17th century. During the Revolution it served as a salt depot. Franz Christian Gau directed the restoration after 1826.
It has been a Melkite Greek Catholic parish church since 1889, and the iconostasis dates to 1890. The infobox says Romanesque.
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