FRANCE'S FIRST STRAIGHT STREET AND POINT OF FOCUS

THE PATH WHERE THE SAINT IS SAID TO HAVE COLLAPSED WAS A TRADE ROUTE, WHICH BECAME A PILGRIMAGE ROUTE WITH HIS RELICS...

Concluding at the kings' mausoleum.

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

The winding path shows the former trade route's antiquity:

When the basilica became the royal mausoleum, for the relics also meant coming for the tombs: 

(From 638)

The space by which pilgrims left the route to reach the church is 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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Drop the ancestors, hail power!