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In the book, the Paris Meridian is referred to as the “ Rose Line ,” purportedly running through St Sulpice Church. Regrettably, this notion is entirely fictitious! In reality, the Paris Meridian marked the zero longitude line with the Mire du Sud or South Sight, also known as the Observatory Sight that passed through the Paris Observatory.
The Paris meridian is a meridian line running through the Paris Observatory in Paris, France – now longitude 2°20′14.02500″ East. It was a long-standing rival to the Greenwich meridian as the prime meridian of the world.
Jun 26, 2023 · How to find the famous Paris “Rose Line”. This is a blog post about how to find the French Meridian Line, mapped out by bronze medallions on the streets of Paris. You may have already heard The Earful Tower’s podcast episode on the topic, which is embedded below. This page is a visual guide to help you find more.
The Church of Saint-Sulpice ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃sylpis]) is a Catholic church in Paris, France, on the east side of Place Saint-Sulpice, in the Latin Quarter of the 6th arrondissement. Only slightly smaller than Notre-Dame and Saint-Eustache, it is the third largest church in the city.
It is without a doubt the popular novel The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown has just added to Paris being the world’s number one tourist destination. Throughout the book Brown has described the infamous ‘Rose Line’, better known as the Parisian Meridian, the once challenger to the Greenwich meridian.
Nov 6, 2017 · Brown calls this line the Paris Meridian, or the Rose Line, but apparently that’s pure fiction: Zero longitude of the meridian line is actually in Parc Montsouris, according to Travel France Online.
Feb 28, 2019 · 269. Miguel Hermoso Cuesta/cc by-sa 4.0. If you’ve read Dan Brown’s bestselling mystery “The Da Vinci Code” you would know this obelisk as the “Paris Meridian” or “Rose Line,” but these names...
