Historical Figures

Saint Genevieve of Paris (c.420 - c.500)

Coming from a wealthy family of the Gallo-Roman aristocracy, she would have inherited as the only daughter of the office of member of the municipal council held by his father. According to tradition, aged 28 during the siege of Paris in 451, she convinced the inhabitants of the city not to abandon their city to the Huns of Attila. Supporter of Clovis and the Franks, she convinces him to build a church on the mons Lucotitius (which today bears the name of Montagne Sainte-Geneviève), in the current 5th arrondissement of Paris, in the heart of the Latin Quarter.