Église Saint-Étienne-du-Mont

This guide to Église Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris follows the fate of Sainte Geneviève, the city's patron saint, after a revolutionary crowd put her remains on trial in 1793. It traces how her small chapel connects to the only surviving rood screen in Paris, the stone jubé that once separated clergy from congregation while every other church tore its own down. Along the way it points out the writers Blaise Pascal and Jean Racine, buried in the floor rather than the Panthéon next door, and a film cameo on the church's north steps. Look for the jubé's twin spiral staircases as you step inside.