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Notre-Dame de Paris

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Preceded by a Gallo-Roman temple to Jupiter, a Christian basilica, and a Romanesque (
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) [c...], Notre-Dame dominates the Seine and the Ile-de-la-Cité as well as the (
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) [h...] of Paris. Maurice de Sully, bishop of Paris, decided to build it for the expanding (
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) [po...], dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The construction began in 1163 during the reign of Louis VII. Pope Alexander III laid the (
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) [Co...] was completed roughly 200 years later in about 1345. The reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV saw significant (
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) [de...] of tombs, and stained glass. At the end of the 18th (
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) [c...], during the Revolution, many of the treasures of the cathedral were (
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) [e...] destroyed or plundered. Only the great bells (
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) [a...] being melted down, and the church interior was used as a (
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) [wa...] for the storage of forage and food. After falling into disrepair, a restoration program (
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) [o...] by Lassus and Viollet-le-Duc, was carried out in 1845. During the Commune of 1871, the Cathedral was (
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) [n...] burned by the Communards but it survived the Commune (
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) [es...] unscathed and during its history, Notre-Dame has been the site of numerous official and other (
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