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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. 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 ...

  6. List of cathedrals in France - Wikipedia

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    Cathédrale or Concathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Thyrse de Sisteron; now Église Notre-Dame-des-Pommiers: Digne: Sisteron: Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Thyrsus; now Blessed Virgin Mary (Notre-Dame-des-Pommiers, or "Our Lady of the Apple-trees") former cathedral or co-cathedral (bishopric suppressed in 1801) Soissons Cathedral

  7. 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 ...

  8. Inside Notre Dame, Paris’ Gothic gem, as it reopens ... - AOL

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    Five years after it was nearly destroyed in a devastating fire, Notre Dame de Paris formally reopened on Saturday with a two-hour ceremony inside the famed cathedral’s gleaming, newly renovated ...

  9. See First Images Of Notre Dame Cathedral's Restored Interior ...

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    “The blaze at Notre Dame was a national wound and you were the remedy, through your determination, hard work and commitment,” he said. The altar, designed by French artist and designer ...