This statue was inaugurated 30 Oct 1836. It represents the patron saint of Michel de l'Hôpital (1507-1573), who had been Chancellor of France between 1560 and 1568, in which function he had advocated religious tolerance, in an attempt to stem the violence of France's Wars of Religion. The grave of the Chancellor at Champmotteux was broken into during the Revolution. Following the Bourbon Restoration it was restored, but in 1834 the Prefect of Seine et Oise, advised by M. de Bizemont, proprietor of Vignay, decided to carry out a better and more durable restoration. The Prefect opened a subscription, which was confined to a small number of notabilités, chosen with some deliberation in the chambers of government, the magistrature, and the legal profession. The sum of 12,185 francs was raised, and architectural work was entrusted to the architect Blondel fils. This involved detaching the tomb from the wall of the church so that visitors could circulate around it. A hemicycle was added to the chapel, whose ambulatory was given a revetement in Languedoc marble. The Magasin Pittoresque, in its number for November 1837, said of Marochetti's contribution that he "fit concourir l'art de son ciseau à la souscription", which suggests that he gave his work for nothing. It also stated that the statue of St Michael rested on a "cul-de-lampe" and that it was surmounted by "couronnement". It added "we believe it would be pointless to call attention to the grace and elegance which recommend this sculpture".

It is very probable that Marochetti's Saint Michael was originally conceived for a different location altogether. An article in the newspaper, La Quotidienne (11 Dec. 1841) by a historian, Nicolas-Michel Troche, discusses the recent restoration of the church of Saint Germain l'Auxerrois, with a particular focus on the figure of an Angel of Judgement by Marochetti, placed on the gable of the church's facade. Troche tells us that, before the Revolution of 1789, this gable had been crowned by a figure of St Michael, and that the intention of the restorers had been to place there another figure of the saint. He tells us also that Marochetti had presented the restoration committee with a model of a St Michael, "armed to the teeth, treading down the spirit of evil". Troche suggests that political considerations persuaded the restorers to reject this, since Saint Michael had become an emblem of the  Bourbon legitimists, whose activities in the church had caused it to be sacked during riots in 1831. Marochetti was asked to present an alternative gable figure, and came up with an Angel of Judgement, whose meaning Troche found difficult to explain (see entry on the Angel of Judgement). It seems therefore probable that the group now at Champmotteux is the one originlly inteded for Saint Germain l'Auxerrois. Saint Germain, which had been deconsecrated following its sacking, was returned to the cult on 13 May 1837, and oirk on its restoration commenced in the following year. Troche does not give a date for Marochetti's presentation of his Saint Michael model, but perhaps this preceded the commencement of operations, in which case we may suyppose that it was recycled for Champmotteux. If these Saint Michaels were not one and the same, Marochetti must have been thinking of two similar groups at roughly the same time.