FRANCE'S FIRST STRAIGHT STREET AND POINT OF FOCUS

THE PATH WHERE THE SAINT IS SAID TO HAVE COLLAPSED WAS A TRADE ROUTE, WHICH HIS RELICS MADE A PILGRIMAGE ROUTE AS WELL

Adapted from Walking in France, Traditional Pilgrimage Routes / zoom (please scroll down) 

The street follows a winding path, sign of its antiquity:

When the monarchy made the basilica its mausoleum, the pilgrimage for the relics meant also coming for the tombs:

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The space by which pilgrims left the route to reach the church was the first straight street in France (Roman roads excepted)...

Model at the entry to the tombs  

...and the basilica, its first point of focus:  

That design will be at the heart

of Paris's majesty: 

To be continued.

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