Église Saint-Sulpice
Baroque church sheltering Delacroix's last great murals and an 18th-century astronomical gnomon.
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This guide to Église Saint-Sulpice in Paris follows Eugène Delacroix, who spent the last twelve years of his life painting a side chapel here after a 1849 commission, walking over each morning from his flat on the Rue Furstemberg. It also traces the church's eighteenth-century gnomon, an astronomical instrument built to calculate Easter, and the popular myth that grew up around it. Stand in the transept to see the brass line the priests once tracked the sun by.
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