Background
Marron was born in Leyden in 1754 to a Huguenot family who had fled to the Netherlands as refugees from Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux in the Drôme department of France.
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Paul Marron
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He studied theology at Leyden and was ordained at the age of 20.
Career
The Edict of Tolerance in 1787 gave non-Catholics the right to openly practice their religion. He was called as the pastor of the Walloon church of Dordrecht in 1776. Paris
In 1782 he moved to Paris to serve as the chaplain of the Dutch ambassador.
The new congregation first met on June 7, 1789 in the back room of a wine shop at the corner of rue Mondétour and rue du Cygne.
Some of the faithful were distressed to sing the Psalms in a place that was home to more bacchanalian tunes. The church moved to 18 rue Dauphine in February, 1790, where Antoine Court de Gébelin, the famous interpreter of the Tarot, had held his meetings
On July 20, 1792 Marron came from Holland to America to deliver the funeral oration for John Paul Jones. In 1811 Napoleon decided to demolish Saint-Louis-du-Louvre to make way for an expansion of the Louvre.
As a replacement building he gave Marron"s congregation l"Oratoire du Louvre.
Death
Marion died on July 31, 1832 from a cholera epidemic and was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery. He was still the preacher at l"Oratoire at the time of his death and was succeeded by Athanase Coquerel. His tomb is inscribed with 1 Corinthians 15:55, the last passage on which he preached during a career of more than fifty years:
O death, were is your sting? O grave, were is your victory?.
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Religion
Protestant