Notre Dame de Paris: A Short History & Description of the Cathedral, With Some Account of the Churches Which Preceded ItHiatt, Charles
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Notre Dame de Paris: A Short History & Description of the Cathedral, With Some Account of the Churches Which Preceded It
Hiatt, Charles
Notre-Dame de Paris (Cathedral)
17. Georges Darboy. Born 1813. Bishop of Nancy 1850; Archbishop of
Paris 1863. Arrested as a hostage by the Commune on April 4th, 1871,
and shot on May 27th.
18. Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert. Born 1802. Archbishop of Tours 1857;
Archbishop of Paris 1871; Cardinal 1873. Died 1886.
19. François-Marie-Benjamin Richard. Born 1819. Bishop of Belley
1871; Coadjutor of Archbishop Guibert 1875; Archbishop of Paris 1886.
Cardinal 1889.
INDEX
Aisles, double, 22, 60
Altar, high, 86
Ambulatory, 76
Apse, 22
Archbishops, list of, 100-102
Bells, 42
Bishops, list of, 98-100
Bishop’s Palace, 94, 98
Buttress system, 44
Chapels added, 8
” of the choir, 90-93;
of the nave, 66-69
“Chimères,” 40
Choir, 82; in the thirteenth century, 81
Clerestory: nave, 64;
transepts, 72
Cloister, or Cloître, 8, 95
Crypt, 86
Darboy, Archbishop, statue of, 91
Decoration, coloured mural, 66-68, 75
“Devils of Notre Dame,” 20
Dimensions of the cathedral, 56
Doorways: west, 30-38;
transepts, 48-53
Flèche, 42
Galerie des Rois, 39
Garden, 96
Glass, stained, 69, 89
Gothic construction, 20
Grille of choir, 82
Historical events, 9-16
Hospital (Hotel Dieu), 97
Hugo, Victor, on Notre Dame (_see_ Notre Dame)
Maurice de Sully, Bishop, first builder of the present church, 7
Monuments in the nave, 64
Napoleon I., coronation of, 14
Notre Dame: early history of the church, 5-7;
historical events in, 9-16;
its place in French Gothic, 19;
Victor Hugo on, 27-29, 40, 42
“Notre Dame de Paris,” statue of, 72-75
Organ, 64
Parvis, Place du, 94, 97
Piers of the nave, 58, 60
Portail de la Ste. Vierge, 30
” central, 34
” Ste. Anne or St. Marcel, 33, 38
Porte Rouge, 53
Presbytère, 96
Relics, 95, 96
Revolution, the, 12
Roman remains, 5, 86
Roof, 42, 57
Rose windows of transepts, 75
Sacristy, 95
St. Denis, 5; statue of, 75;
chapel of, 90
St. Marcel, statue of, 33, 38;
shrine of, 76, 81;
chapel of, 92
Sanctuary, 81, 86
Screen, sculptured, in choir, 77
Stalls, choir, 85
“Stryge, le,” 41
Tombstones in the nave, 56
Towers, 42
Transepts, 22, 48, 72
Treasury, 95
Triforium, 62
Vaulting, 57, 62
West front, 7, 24, 28-42
Windows, 46
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INTERNAL DIMENSIONS.
Length (total) 390 feet.
” of nave 225 ”
” of transepts 144 ”
Width of nave vault 39 ”
Height of ” “ 102 ”
” ” towers 204 ”
Area 54,050 sq. feet.
[Illustration: PLAN OF THE CATHEDRAL OF NOTRE DAME, PARIS
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