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Nanterre Cathedral (Cathédrale Sainte-Geneviève-et-Saint-Maurice de Nanterre), Huts-de-Seine, France

Well of Saint Genevieve (Sainte Geneviève), in front of the Nanterre Cathedral (Cathédrale Sainte-Geneviève-et-Saint-Maurice de Nanterre), 1924 - 1937, by architects Georges Pradelle and Yves-Marie Froidevaux, Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, France. According to the legend of Saint Genevieve, born at the place of the cathedral circa 422, Saint Genevieve's tears -because of her mother being opposed to her mysticism- shed into the well, would have cured her mother from blindness. Since then it is a place of pilgrimage, including Anne of Austria, future mother of Louis XIV who came to the well in 1636 to grant her wish of maternity. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Cathédrale Sainte-Geneviève-et-Saint-Maurice de Nanterre
Well of Saint Genevieve (Sainte Geneviève), in front of the Nanterre Cathedral (Cathédrale Sainte-Geneviève-et-Saint-Maurice de Nanterre), 1924 - 1937, by architects Georges Pradelle and Yves-Marie Froidevaux, Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, France. According to the legend of Saint Genevieve, born at the place of the cathedral circa 422, Saint Genevieve's tears -because of her mother being opposed to her mysticism- shed into the well, would have cured her mother from blindness. Since then it is a place of pilgrimage, including Anne of Austria, future mother of Louis XIV who came to the well in 1636 to grant her wish of maternity. Picture by Manuel Cohen