Walk in Paris through Da Vinci Codes :

Which reader by reading Da Vinci Code did not imagine or did not seek in his memories the famous places described per daN Brown. All starts and all finishes in this monumental place which is the Louvre, this splendid castle transformed into museum. The intrigue starts in this splendid Grande long Gallery of 500M with its barrel vault glazed which could place 2 passenger trains coast at coast and oû rests the?uvres henceforth large Masters. But before going further in our enigma let us return on one of our heroes professor of the university of Harvard, present in Paris to give a conference in the Dauphine house of the American University of Paris which chose to reside in one of the largest hotel of Paris: Ritz (splendid hotel, high place of Paris located on the Vendôme Place). Now let us follow its course in the streets of Paris in middle of the night: its descent in the Street Honore Saint where it sees the roast chestnut salesmen arranging their material, this headlight of the Eiffel Tower which sweeps the deadened Parisian roofs of its luminous ray, the Avenue of the Opera, the street Rohan, the street of Rivoli and this Arc of the Carrousel which is drawn up on its line before arriving at the Louvre and to discover there in of its centre this famous pyramid of glass imagined by architect I.M Pei. This so mythical Pyramid with its 666 rhombuses of glasses (figure traditionally associated Satan) which was to order by François Mittérand. But let us leave one moment this museum of the Louvre to go to wander in the Street the Heather in the search of this carriage door described per daN Brown. Carry of a luxurious brick residence (residence allotted to Opus Dei) where will rest one of these enigmatic characters of the book before also continuing its search in another place strong him in symbol! Let us follow maintaining it to the Church Sulpice Saint built on the ruins of an old Temple dedicated to the Isis goddess. This sanctuary reproduces with a few centimetres close the plan of Our Injury. At the interior of this splendid building under the sun, we can discover in the Southern brace of the Transept a fine brass rod polished in the ground: mark of the Rose Ligne. This Rose Ligne existed well before the establishment of the meridian line of Greenwich like longitude of reference. This longitude zero passed by Paris and in particular not Saint Sulpice before being carried by Greenwich in 1888. In the brace of the Northern Transept one can see an obelisk and with his feet the marble squares where a niche is hiding place containing a secret message. Let us turn over towards the c?ur and observe the High altar and its gilded Lectern where a bible rests which gives the response to a coded message. Let us return now in this pyramid with its large marble staircase, its roof in canopy one one can see the scintillating drizzle of the water jets, this immense Atrium of 23000m², its gigantic rooms, its harrows ready to drop to condemn the rooms enc have flight and this room without exit which is the Room of the States where this Mona Lisa of Da so mystical Vinci puts back. Let us set out again now of the Louvre to continue this insane race which trains our 2 heroes in the dark streets of Paris at the wheel of a smart. This street of Rivoli and its Arcades, the Avenue of the Elysées Fields of night, the Place Charles of Gaulle and the Triumphal arch and its 12 branches, the Avenue of Friedland, the Hausman Boulevard and its department stores and finally this Lazare Station and his court of Rome. Their night tour is completed then in front of the 24 of the street of Longchamp, Siège of the Bank Zurichoise de Dépôt. Place from where they will set out again for other adventures which will carry out them of Versailles to the United Kingdom. But like our professor d' Université in this captivating novel, let us return a few days later under the sun lying down on this splendid town of light to finish our initiatory course while setting out again of Ritz and by taking the street of Small Fields. Let us take the pavement of left of the street of Richelieu to be able to discover with our feet this bronze disc engraved of 2 letters N and the S (Northern and Southern), and follow this beaconing while going towards the South One discovers a beacon identical to the corner of the French Comedy. One counts 135 identical medallions tracing on a North-South axis, a perfectly right line through the streets of Paris (of Crowned C?ur at the Old Observatory), this famous Rose line whom we had discovered in the Church Sulpice Saint). Let us cross the Richelieu passage now and find owe this Pyramid of the Louvre with the thousand reflections or in its centre rests the reliquary of Marie Madelein and the 2 Pyramids reversed.

Emmanuelle BARSOT