Saint-Bruno Church in Bordeaux

This guide to Saint-Bruno Church in Bordeaux opens on a question: why would a seventeenth-century archbishop build a public promenade beside a monastery of monks sworn to near-total silence. It follows Cardinal Francois de Sourdis, who drained this marshy ground starting in 1609 and laid out one of France's first leisure walkways alongside the new Carthusian monastery. Stand facing the square where Bordeaux once strolled past a wall of vowed silence.