Église Saint-Vincent de Carcassonne
Southern Gothic church with a vast single nave and a carillon tower once used to measure the Earth.
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This guide to the Église Saint-Vincent in Carcassonne climbs its bell tower into the seventeen-nineties, when Revolutionary France set out to measure the Earth and define the metre. It follows the astronomer Pierre Méchain, who surveyed the southern stretch from Rodez over the Pyrenees to Barcelona, and the colleague and wife who worried about him. Best heard at the foot of the tower, looking up at the stone you could climb.
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