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. 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. Notre-Dame de Paris is one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture in the world. 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. Though regarded in France as one of that country’s greatest poets, he is better known abroad for such novels as Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) and. 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. Victor Hugo, in full Victor-Marie Hugo, (born February 26, 1802, Besanon, Francedied May 22, 1885, Paris), poet, novelist, and dramatist who was the most important of the French Romantic writers.

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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