La Tour St. Jacques La Boucherie

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Completed in 1523, the tower of Saint-Jacques - it is all that remains on the site of the Romanesque church of Saint-Jacques la Boucherie, whose construction was funded by the guild of butchers ( "Boucherie" - butcher shop). The church served as a gathering place for pilgrims to follow the Camino de Santiago to your destination - the tomb of St. James in Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The church was rebuilt in the XVI century, changing the style Romanesque to Gothic, but then her bell tower was added - the current tower of Saint-Zhak.V the crypt of the church was buried the famous alchemist Nicolas Flamel. In 1648 the French scientist Blaise Pascal spent on the tower of St. Jacques measurements of atmospheric davleniya.Tserkov declared national property, it was sold by the revolutionary government and disassembled into a profitable product - the stones - in 1797.