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The Church of Saint-Sulpice, it is said, has the most eccentric history of any building in Paris. Built over the ruins of an ancient temple to the Egyptian goddess Isis, the church possesses an architectural footprint matching that of Notre Dame to within inches. The sanctuary has played host to the baptisms of the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire, as well as the marriage of Victor Hugo. The attached seminary has a well-documented history of unorthodoxy and was once the chlandestine meeting hall for numerous secret societies. Embedded in the gray granite floor, a thin polished strip of brass glistened in the stone ... a golden line slanting across the church's floor The line ...