Hello There is a description of the first project using the obelisk as a gnomon, in the book "cadrans solaires de Paris" by Andree Gotteland and Georges Camus.
The idea was from the famous Camille Flamarion in 1913 and some lines have been installed in 1939, immediately stopped by the war. Only few lines are still visible. The new project is driven by the French Sundial Commission, I think, especially by Denis Savoie, its president. The lines and numbers are made of yellow rubber, sticked on the ground. Trying to read the time on that particular sundial could be very dangerous due to the terrible traffic on the Place de la Concorde... François Blateyron [EMAIL PROTECTED] web.fc-net.fr/frb/sundials/ (cadrans solaires, sundials, sonnenuhren...) -----Message d'origine----- De : Richard Langley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : Jim_Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc : [email protected] <[email protected]> Date : mercredi 23 juin 1999 04:42 Objet : Re: A couple of items on the web concerning the sun >>PARIS - France inaugurated the world's largest sundial Monday, using >>an ancient Egyptian obelisk as the pin and Paris's famed Place de la >>Concorde as the dial. >I don't think this is a completely new sundial. I think they've just given >the old one that used to be there a facelift. Perhaps one of our French >members could give us a bit of background on the old and "new" dials. There's >very little about the old dial in the Cadrans Solaires Francais Catalogues. >
