The
Saint-Sulpice web site
represents a group of individuals who, with a healthy
dose of self-satire, share an interest in French culture (especially that of
Paris and of the Left Bank!), in joie de vivre, the fine
arts, literature, cuisine, romance, spiritual development, and creativity.�
Saint-Sulpice also celebrates aesthetic values; and hence the emancipation of the feminine and the emergence of feminine creative energies as a force of transformation. As the site develops we plan to provide links to and features on the feminine.
Saint-Sulpice
in Paris
is, among other things, the name of a square, a metro station and
a church in the 6th Arrondissement. The two-towered
fa�ade of the �glise Saint-Sulpice (to see a small photo,
click here)
is a Saint-Germain-des-Pr�s landmark. The church is known for having a copper line marking the "Paris Meridian" in its floor (to learn more about it, visit The Basye Vortex site); 
St-Sulpice is also noted for its frescoes by the 19th-C. genius of Romantic painting, Eug�ne
Delacroix, whose Rue Furstenberg studio is
not far off. The frescoes include the famous "Jacob Wrestling with
the Angel", which�
symbolizes
the theme of our web site as well: the relationship between the finite and the infinite.
Place
Saint-Sulpice -- the square in front of the church -- is in some sense
at the center of the Left Bank.�
There is of course something arbitrary about such a claim and we do not hold the idea to be canonical. In any case, the web site was originally named for the tourbillon of aesthetic, religious and creative energies with which the Left Bank is synonymous.
While not limited to any period of history or to any "ism", Saint-Sulpice-on-the-Web features French, especially 18th C., ideas and expressions. We believe that the 18th C. as such is not merely a moribund historical curiosity but that aspects of it, such as the rituals of romance exemplified by Marivaux, are of vivid interest and usefulness today.�
Saint-Sulpice seeks to raise the profile of a balanced lifestyle that creatively combines the spiritual and the sensuous, the idealistic and the practical, and even seeks links between the religious and the erotic.�
The person referred to as the Abb� is not merely a convenient fiction, but designates a real person linked with Saint-Sulpice-on-the-Web, largely preoccupied with spiritual pursuits, who however prefers to remain anonymous and thus more free to participate.
Welcome to Saint-Sulpice. Please feel free to write us with anything you think may be relevant to the goals stated above.
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