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The Salle des Girondins displays a guillotine blade, the crucifix to which Marie-Antoinette prayed, and the lock used on Robespierre’s cell.
The Times's "Arts & Leisure" section caricatures the carnival-like scene: Protesting Catholics prayed and handed out vomit bags.
This from Reuters: "Druids danced, Muslims prayed, Hindus bathed, and Europeans stopped work and took to the streets as an eerie twilight followed by darkness covered their capitals at about noon."
Just across rue St-Jacques stands the exquisite 13th- to 15th-century Flamboyant Gothic church of St-Séverin, in which Dante is said to have prayed and Saint-Saëns asked to be made honorary organist.
He admits that he "might have exaggerated Nixon's spirituality" in his own mind; says he prayed with George Bush the eve of the Gulf War and with Nancy Reagan the day after her husband was shot; and describes chastising Nancy Reagan for consulting an astrologer: "I urged her to seek guidance from the Lord instead."