Florissant

Florissant, city, St. Louis county, east-central Missouri, U.S. A northern suburb of St. Louis, it lies in a valley near the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Settled by the French in about 1785, it was called St. Ferdinand by the Spanish and was officially renamed Florissant (from the French fleurissant, “flowering”) in 1939. The Old St. Ferdinand’s Shrine (a former Roman Catholic church) was built in 1821. St. Stanislaus Seminary was founded there...