Rue Maître-Albert
Paris · France · Alley
Night walkers in the crooked alley claim to have met the medieval master himself, in full magician's robes, in Notre-Dame's shadow.
The crooked little street behind the Quai de la Tournelle was called rue Perdue, the lost street, in the 14th century. Today it carries the name of Albertus Magnus — Albert le Grand — the Dominican who taught in medieval Paris and became the master of Thomas Aquinas. His curiosity reached far beyond what theology allowed: he wrote on minerals, poisons and stars, and posterity turned him into an alchemist and necromancer. The notorious grimoire Le Petit Albert bears his name. According to the street's legend he never left it. Night visitors describe an elderly man in long dark robes marked with a magician's signs, standing motionless in the alley, watching them, and then gone — always in the shadow of Notre-Dame, the cathedral he once watched rise.
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Where is Rue Maître-Albert located?
Rue Maître-Albert is in Paris, France.
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Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.
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