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167 Vincennes in the Paris suburbs: Notre Dame. Deluxe confessionals

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Neoclassical church just up the road from me, started in the 1820s with the help of money from King Louis XVIII. Fab canopy over the altar, but I’m a sucker for canopies. Deluxe model confessional, classy sins only, I reckon. Very bright stained glass. In the early twentieth century there was a special tramway from the church to the cemetery five kilometres away, for funeral purposes only.