The magnificent 16th century Saint Eustache with its impressive flying buttresses stands at the entrance to Les Halles in the centre of Paris.
It has an interesting history: It was built on the site of a much smaller church (Sainte-Agnes) established in 1223 by a man named Alais as thanksgiving for the fortune he made by levying a small tax on every basket of fish sold in the market nearby. Perhaps it should rather have been built as a penance for extorting money from the poor fishermen!
OJ
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