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Place du Chatelet - Paris (9145)

Right side:

Fontaine du Palmier

designed in 1806 by architect and engineer François-Jean Bralle

At the top of the palm trunk, goddess Victory by Louis-Simon Boizot.

 

Left side:

Tour Sant-Jacques (Saint James Tower)

52-metre (171 ft)

This Flamboyant Gothic tower is all that remains of the former 16th-century Church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie ("Saint James of the butchery"), which was demolished in 1797.

 

Pinnacle sculpture by Paul Chenillon

 

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Uploaded on July 29, 2016
Taken on December 29, 2015