5.8.1. ADAPTING ROYAL MAJESTY: STRAIGHT STREETS AND POINTS OF FOCUS

THE 12th-CENTURY SPACE IN FRONT OF THE SAINT DENIS BASILICA IS AT THE ORIGIN OF THE STRAIGHT STREETS THAT LEAD THE EYE TO A TARGET

It led pilgrims to leave the trade route to reach the saints' relics and the royal tombs.  

Toward 1600 it inspired the first straight street in Paris. The eye is drawn to the equestrian statue of the reigning king that dominates the first royal place... 

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Louis XIII

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Place des Vosges (originally place Royale)

That model is omnipresent.  

Its royal source is ignored.

So is the savage reason 

for extending it.

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5.8.2. 

Beauty whose brutal origin has been forgotten