In this instance the rope was attached to the highest pinnacle of St.Paul's Cathedral.

Under Louis XII an acrobat named Georges Menustre, during a passage of the King through Macon, executed several performances on a rope stretched from the grand tower of the Chateau and the clock of the Jacobins, at a height of 156 feet.

A similar performance was given at Milan before the French Ambassadors, and at Venice under the Doges and the Senate on each St.
Mark's Day, rope-walkers performed at high altitudes.

In 1649 a man attempted to traverse the Seine on a rope placed between the Tour de Nesles and the Tour du Grand-Prevost.

The performance, however, was interrupted by the fall of the mountebank into the Seine.