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- From the 16th Century, Notre-Dame fell victim to France's political and religious strife, as well as changing cultural tastes. Renaissance men sought to break away from the medieval period and rediscover the cultural treasures of ancient Greece and Rome. Gothic was out.
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On 15 April 2019, just before 18:20 CEST, a structural fire broke out in the roof space of Notre-Dame de Paris, a medieval Catholic cathedral in Paris, France. By the time the Notre-Dame fire was extinguished, the cathedral's wooden spire (flèche) had collapsed, most of the wooden roof had been destroyed, and the cathedral's upper walls were ...
Apr 15, 2019 · What happened: A massive blaze at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris devastated large parts of the 850-year-old church. The fire is now out, but the cathedral’s iconic spire fell during the hours it...
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In the 1790s, anti-Christian forces all but tore down one of France’s most powerful symbols—but it survived and returned to glory.
It’s one of France’s most powerful religious, architectural and cultural symbols—and images of Notre Dame de Paris in flames evoke questions about how the city, and the cathedral, will move forward. But the fire isn’t the first time the cathedral has faced destruction.
During the French Revolution in the 1790s, angry mobs and revolutionaries looted the medieval Gothic church—and even declared that it wasn’t a church at all—during a bloody push to remove France’s close ties to the Catholic church. More than two dozen statues affixed to the church facade were publicly decapitated the same year as Marie Antoinette.
Origins of the French Revolution
Before a furious crowd stormed the Bastille in Paris in 1789, the Church wielded extraordinary power in France. The vast majority of French people were Catholic, Catholicism was the state religion, and the Church owned vast swaths of property and collected heavy tithes from most people’s incomes without paying taxes of its own. But a growing number of French people had tired of the Church’s almost inconceivable power.
As the monarchy toppled, then fell, a small group of radical revolutionaries who had been influenced by Enlightenment-era philosophies of freedom of religion and a reason-based society saw their chance to strip the Church of much of its authority. They embarked on a dechristianization campaign, confiscating Church property, trying to get all clergy to swear their loyalty to the new state, and removing the Church’s control over the birth, death and administrative records it had held for so long.
Stretching roughly 80 miles across northern England, Hadrian's Wall split the country in two during ancient times. Did the Roman army build the wall to protect their new province, or to build up the phenomenal ego of Emperor Hadrian?
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Apr 20, 2019 · Henri Astier explains why Notre-Dame's turbulent 850-year history proves its power for renewal.
The Notre-Dame fire was a conflagration that broke out at Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, on the evening of April 15, 2019, damaging the iconic landmark and garnering attention worldwide.
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Jul 16, 2019 · A baffling alert. A race to the wrong building. Notre-Dame still stands only because firefighters decided to risk everything, a New York Times reconstruction has found.
Apr 19, 2019 · According to Reuters, four large-scale 17th- and 18th-century paintings depicting scenes from the lives of the apostles were damaged by smoke and are being transferred to the Louvre to undergo...
