My last post from Paris is of the side façade of Saint-Sulpice. I had misremembered the history of the church. The bulk of it is seventeenth-century, designed by Daniel Gittard, who completed the north portal between 1670 and 1678. It was in 1732 that a competition was held for the design of the west façade, won by Giovanni Servandoni and based on the façade of St. Paul’s:-

