Notre-Dame de Paris

General Information

Location:	Paris ( 4^th), Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Address:	6 place du Parvis Notre-Dame
Location description:	On the Ile de la Cité
Coordinates:	48° 51' 11.00" N 2° 20' 60.00" E

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building structure	masonry

1163	First stone is laid. Bishop Maurice de Sully begins with the reconstruction of the cathedral.
1175	Beginning of works on the nave.
1177	Choir finished except for the vaults.
1196	Roof construction on-going.
1210	Work on the western façade begins.
1215	Western spans of the nave are completed.
1220	Modification of the flying buttresses. Construction of buttresses to take wind loads on top of the gutter walls.
1220	Rose in western façade (diameter 9.60 m).
1220 - 1225	Towers are finished.
1230	Beginning of enlargement of high windows.
1230 - 1240	Eastern chapels at the northern end of the nave by Pierre de Montreuil.
1245 - 1248	Chapels near the choir by Pierre de Montreuil.
ca. 1245 - 1296	Northern transept - widening of one span, chapels and façade according to plans by Jean de Chelles.
1250	Northern rose by Jean de Chelles (diameter 12.90 m).
1258	Southern transept - widening of one span and façade by Jean Chelles the Pierre de Montreuil.
1260	Southern rose by Pierre de Montreuil (diameter 12.90 m).
1725 - 1727	Reconstruction of the southern rose by Claude Penel under the guidance of architect Boffrant and at the cost of the Cardinal de Noailles.
1844	Beginning of restoration works by Viollet-le-Duc.
1861	Restoration of the southern rose by Viollet-le-Duc who modifies the outer tracings.

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Architecture

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Pérouse de Montclos, Jean-Marie (2003): L'art de Paris. Editions Place des Victoires, Paris (France).
Recht, Roland (1989): Les bâtisseurs des cathédrales gothiques. Editions Les musées de la ville de Strasbourg, Strasbourg (France), pp. 498.
Christ, Yvan (1963): Cathédrales de France. Editions des Deux-Mondes, Paris (France), pp. 216.