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Dec 04, 2019
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Saint Paul Saint Louis du Marais in Paris is a church so nice, that they named it twice.

Originally Saint Paul's church, dating to 1430, was the main cathedral in this neighborhood. But it was destroyed in the Revolution.

So Napoleon eventually designated this one, then called Saint Louis and dating from 1627, to be the new center of worship for this corn…

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