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    Learn English > English lessons and exercises > English test #780: Notre Dame de Paris
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    Notre Dame de Paris


    Notre Dame de Paris



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    Preceded by a Gallo-Roman temple to Jupiter, a Christian basilica, and a Romanesque ( U H R C H C ) , Notre-Dame dominates the Seine and the Ile-de-la-Cité as well as the ( S O R T H I Y ) of Paris. Maurice de Sully, bishop of Paris, decided to build it for the expanding ( O L I O P U A T P N ) , dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The construction began in 1163 during the reign of Louis VII. Pope Alexander III laid the ( A U N N T F O I O D ) stone. . ( T C N I T O C S N U R O ) was completed roughly 200 years later in about 1345. . The reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV saw significant ( A R S T I A O N E L T ) including the ( C T R S N U T O E D I ) of tombs, and stained glass. At the end of the 18th ( Y C R U T N E ) , during the Revolution, many of the treasures of the cathedral were ( H I E T R E ) destroyed or plundered. Only the great bells ( E D A I O V D ) being melted down, and the church interior was used as a ( A R E W E U S H O ) for the storage of forage and food. After falling into disrepair, a restoration program ( N S E E R O E V ) by Lassus and Viollet-le-Duc, was carried out in 1845. During the Commune of 1871, the Cathedral was ( Y N R A L E ) burned by the Communards but it survived the Commune ( E L E L A S I T N Y S ) unscathed and during its history, Notre Dame has been the site of numerous official and other ( N E O R E M C A I L ) occasions.






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