The movie “Notre Dame Eternelle” presented by Orange and 3D models will be presented in the archaeological crypt of the Île de la Cité, just below the cathedral’s parvis. Notre-Dame de Paris is one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture in the world. Buy Notre-Dame de Paris (the Hunchback of Notre-Dame) by Victor Hugo from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK. This exhibition will depict this turning point in Notre-Dame’s history through reproductions and digital devices so that visitors can enter the world of the cathedral at different points in time. The cathedral is today admired all around the world, as the response to the fire on 15 April 2019 prove it. In the early age of photograph, many photographers have captured the different stages of the restoration project. As well as the famous novel by Victor Hugo and the bold architectural designs by Viollet-le-Duc, those pictures took part of the posterity of the monument. For instance, he freely got inspired by Victor Hugo novel to design the sculptures, in particular the grotesques high up on the cathedral. He wanted to remain faithful to the medieval building, but he also indulges himself a few creative additions. In 1831, Victor Hugo’s novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, was published with the cathedral as the main character, and the immense popularity of the novel, created a public movement to support the Notre-Dame.Ī far-reaching restoration project was led by the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc from 1844 to 1864. Victim of vandalism and a lack of maintenance, it was even put forward to demolish it.

At the beginning of the 19 th century, Notre-Dame is 500 years old and its physical state start to deteriorate.

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