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GIGANTICKÁ Fotografie + Description: France-003231 - Saint-Jacques Tower (Taken on July 4, 2014, Sony NEX-7)

• Since I only had limited time to meet at the Louvre I had to physically run to get to this tower to get a picture. We had passed it on the way to the Louvre and the guide said it was like a lighthouse in the old days to bring people to it. The word lighthouse got me wanting to get a shot, got these and ran back to the Louvre.
• Saint-Jacques Tower is a 52 metre (171 ft) flamboyant Gothic tower and is all that remains of the former 16th century Church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie (Saint James of the butchery), which was leveled shortly after the French Revolution.
• A statue of Blaise Pascal is located at the base of the tower, commemorating the experiments on atmospheric pressure.
• Source: Flickr.com
• Author: Dennis Jarvis from Halifax, Canada

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