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there are literally hundreds, most of them dotted along the pilgrim routes to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. There are two in Paris, or rather, there were. Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas is little-known, but the Tour Saint-Jacques is one of the monuments of central Paris. The tower still stands, but the church was demolished after being sold for building material after the revolution. The tower was sold to a manufacturer of lead shot, producing which involves dropping molten lead through a sieve (to separate it into drops), down the height of a tower (during the fall it forms into spheres) and into water at the bottom (when it sets). To remove the several floors which existed in the tower, the new owner simply cut loose the bells at the top. That must have produced one of the finest sound-effects in history.

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