Tour Saint-Jacques

If you look, you can spot this late Gothic tower on the river, reflecting the love of medieval defensive towers in the sixteenth century. Built around 1523, it is all that remains of a Church, a meeting point for pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela. The Church was destroyed after the Revolution. The mathematician Blaise Pascal, physicist, philosopher and writer of the seventeenth century, used the tower for barometric experiments. On the ground floor there is a statue in his memory. Queen Victoria passed through here on an official visit in 1854 and gave her name to the nearby Victoria Avenue.