Da Vinci Code Facts
Authors have been attracted to Paris throughout the years. Victor Hugo set two of his novels in Paris, using famous landmarks as his setting.
With the Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown has sparked a new wave of tourism to other sites in Paris, the Louvre and St. Sulpice Church. Thanks to the novel, 800,000 more visitors went to the Louvre last year. St. Sulpice Church saw an increase of 300,000 visitors.
Eurostar train found over 1,000 copies of the Da Vinci Code left on their trains.
