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Sunday, May 4, 2014

Église de Saint-Germain-des-Prés

CCC_4457 [Saint-Germain]
The exterior: as seen from the square Saint-Germain-des-Prés


CCC_4451 [Siant-Germain]
The interior

Both photographed on August 12, 2011

The church was completed and consecrated in 558 A. D. It is considered to be the oldest church in Paris.
In one of its side chapels one can see the tomb of the French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes.

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