| Lepers and Kings | The Tympanum : Vision in Stone (1645 words) |
 | This leaves open the possibility that the tympanum (or a tympanum) originally occupied the space over the west entrance and was moved to the south as a part of a major building campaign. |
| In any case, the tympanum is now placed not on a minor accent of the plan of the church (the south as opposed to the west door) but in a more central position facing the plan of the city. |
| The appropriate view of the tympanum, however, does not begin at close range but, at the suggestion of the architecture itself, at the corner of the rue République and the rue sainte Catherine, the end of the ancient rue St. Pierre, the appropriately named approach to the abbey. |
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