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Notre Dame de Paris Notre-Dame Cathedral - Coggle Diagram
Notre Dame de Paris
Notre-Dame Cathedral
Location
Paris
eastern end of the Île de la Cité(City island)
About itself
Age
Middle Ages
Status
the most famous of the Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages
Predecessor
built on the ruins of two earlier churches
themselves predated by a Gallo-Roman temple dedicated to Jupiter
Character
size
antiquity
Gothic cathedrals
bold architectural style
graceful architectural style
Appearance
a choir
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a short transept
square chapels
a nave flanked by double aisles
central spire
was added during restoration in the 19th century, replacing the original, which had been completely removed in the 18th century because of instability
the roof is 115 feet (35 metres) high
two massive early Gothic towers (1210–1250)
its doors adorned with fine early Gothic carvings and surmounted by a row of figures of Old Testament kings
divided into three stories
223 feet (68 metres) high
three great rose windows
retain their 13th-century glass
the apse has large clerestory windows(added 1235–1270)
notable for their boldness and grace
is supported by single-arch flying buttresses of the more daring Rayonnant Gothic style
Experience
Napoleon crowned himself emperor of the French in the cathedral.(1804)
Victor Hugo’s historical novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831)
the cathedral is the setting
underwent major restorations
in the mid-19th century
by the French architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
a fire broke out in the cathedral’s attic
during a restoration campaign in 2019
destroyed
Viollet-le-Duc’s 19th-century spire
most of the roof
was initiated by Maurice de Sully, bishop of Paris(in 1160)
the idea of converting into a single building, on a larger scale, the ruins of the two earlier basilicas.
The foundation stone was laid by Pope Alexander III
(in 1163)
the high altar was consecrated
(in 1189)