Church of Saint Eustache

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The church Saint-Eustache is a Catholic parish church located 146, rue Rambuteau in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, in the heart of the Halles district. It is the third largest church in Paris behind Notre-Dame and Saint-Sulpice. It is dedicated to St.Eustache, born Placidus (or Placidas), a Roman hunting general converted to Christianity whose symbols and attributes — the letters S and E interlaced, hunting horn, deer carrying a cross between his woods — are perceptible, for example, outside the church on the gables of the two transepts, and on pedestals inside.