On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Jim_Cobb wrote:
>http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/etcetera/wires/0622/e_rt_0622_2.sml
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>World's Largest Sundial - But No Sun
>Reuters 8:36 a.m. ET (1237 GMT) June 22, 1999
>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.
>
>The trouble was that the relentless traffic made it hard to follow the
>time lines, the same traffic made Paris Mayor Jean Tiberi 45 minutes
>late for the unveiling ceremony - and the sun did not shine.
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.
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