Notre Dame de Paris Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/notre-dame-de-paris Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:50:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Notre Dame Island Map http://travelsfinders.com/notre-dame-island-map.html http://travelsfinders.com/notre-dame-island-map.html#respond Fri, 14 Sep 2018 16:32:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=259900 Begun 1163 Transepts and choir finished 1182 Transept ends: Jean de Chelles and Pierre de Montereau, c.1250-60 Notre-Dame is, for me, one of the most pessimistic buildings in the world. Not from excessive gloom, which is always surmountable, but through an overpowering sense, outside and in, that God built Notre-Dame as he inscribed the tablets of Moses, then slammed the door shut to sit in judgement for ever and ever and ever. No hope of change, and no glimmer of ultimate purpose: just an endless office of worship like the Gregorian chant that always seems to be going on somewhere

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