Notre Dame Cathedral
Built: 1334
Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris translates as Cathedral
of Our Lady of Paris. Considered to be the finest example
of French Gothic architecture, Notre Dame was commissioned
in 1160. It took over 200 years to build and was finally completed
in 1334. King Henvy VI of England was crowned King of France
in Notre Dame in 1431 and Mary Queen of Scots was crowned
Queen of France after her marriage to François II.
The King's Gallery is a line of statues of the 28 Kings of
Judah and Israel, which was redesigned by Viollet-le-Duc to
replace the statues destroyed during the French Revolution.
The revolutionaries believed the statues to represent the
French kings, and decapitated them.
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