Cloister de La Psalette, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France

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Sited beside the Cathedral, the Psalette cloister consists of three galleries. A fine open staircase links the lower cloister with the upper scriptorium and library. Balzac portrayed one of his characters in La Comédie Humaine here.