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  2. Notre-Dame de Paris - Wikipedia

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    Notre-Dame de Paris (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris French: [nɔtʁ(ə) dam də paʁi] ⓘ; meaning "Cathedral of Our Lady of Paris"), often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, [a] is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité (an island in the River Seine), in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France.

  3. Spire of Notre-Dame de Paris - Wikipedia

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    The Spire of Notre-Dame de Paris is located above the cross-section of the cathedral's transept. Notre-Dame de Paris has had three timber spires made of oak, known as flèches . The first was built between 1220 and 1230.

  4. Île de la Cité - Wikipedia

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    The flèche, or Spire of Notre-Dame de Paris, originally built in 1220–1230, was removed in the 17th century, then rebuilt by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in the mid-19th century. At ninety-six metres (315 ft) high, it was the tallest structure in Paris until the construction of the Eiffel Tower .

  5. How the Iconic Notre Dame Cathedral Was Rebuilt After the ...

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    The iconic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is scheduled to reopen on Saturday, Dec. 7, after a massive fire caused significant structural damage — including a collapsed roof — in April 2019. The ...

  6. France says 'merci' as Notre-Dame Cathedral rises from ruins ...

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    PARIS (Reuters) -The word "Merci" was projected on to the front of Paris' Notre-Dame cathedral as it reopened on Saturday, in thanks for its salvation after a devastating fire that brought the 860 ...

  7. Inside rebuilt Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris as Macron ... - AOL

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    The French president Emmanuel Macron has praised the more than 1,000 craftspeople who helped with “the project of the century”: rebuilding Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral after it was gutted by ...

  8. Construction of Gothic cathedrals - Wikipedia

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    Notre-Dame de Paris was originally equipped with ten bells, eight in the north tower and two, the largest, in the south tower. [28] The principal bell, or bourdon, called Emmanuel, was installed in the north tower in the 15th century, and is still in place. It required the strength of eleven men, pulling on ropes from a chamber below, to ring ...

  9. Paris in the 16th century - Wikipedia

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    The bridge was rebuilt in wood in 1413, but was washed away in 1499. The new Pont Notre-Dame was built of stone between 1500 and 1514 in the new Renaissance style, under the direction of a monk from Italy, Brother Joconde, and the designer-constructor Jean de Dayac. It was lined by sixty-eight identical houses made of bricks and stone.