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Notre-Dame de Paris
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History of Notre-Dame de Paris
{noh'-truh dahm duh pah-ree'}
The Gothic loftiness of Notre-Dame dominates the Seine and the Ile-de-la-Cité as well as the history of Paris. On the spot where this majestic cathedral now stands, the Romans had built a temple to Jupiter, which was followed by a Christian basilica and then a Romanesque church (the Cathedral of St. Etienne, founded by Childebert in 528).
Notre-Dame de Paris
seen from quai de Montebello
Maurice de Sully, bishop of Paris, decided to build a new cathedral for the expanding population, dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Although construction started in 1163, it was not completed until roughly 180 years later in about 1345. Built in an age of illiteracy, the cathedral retells the stories of the Bible in its portals, paintings, and stained glass.
On completion of the choir in 1183, work was begun on the nave and completed c.1208, followed by the west front and towers c.1225-1250. A series of chapels were added to the nave during the period 1235-50, and to the apse during 1296-1330 (Pierre de Chelles and Jean Ravy). Transept crossings were built in 1250-67 by Jean de Chelles and Pierre de Montreuil (also the architect of the Sainte-Chapelle). The six-part rib vaults and the thin elements articulating the wall are typically Early Gothic.
The appearance of the interior was radically transformed in the mid-13th century when the small clerestory windows typical of the Early Gothic style were enlarged downward and filled with High Gothic tracery. The enlargement caused the removal of the unusual triforium. Originally the interior had the four-story elevation common to many Early Gothic churches, and the triforium had large round openings instead of the normal arcades.
Frontal view
seen from the
place du Parvis.
© Archive Photos
Seen from the exterior, the building appears to be High Gothic. Notable features include the profusion of colonnettes and tracery screens, the horizontal and vertical ordering of the facades, the imposing size of the rose windows, and the delicacy of the flying buttresses.
Notre-Dame has had an eventful history over the centuries. Crusaders prayed here before leaving on their holy wars, and polyphonic music developed in the cathedral. Notre-Dame was pillaged during the French revolution, as were a number of other cathedrals throughout France (witness the beheaded saints at the Cathédrale St-Etienne in Bourges, for example): Citizens mistook statues of saints above the portals on the west front for representations of their kings, and, in the midst of their revolutionary fervor, took them down. (Some of these statues were found in the 1970s, almost two hundred years later, in the Latin Quarter.) Many of the cathedral's other treasures were either destroyed or plundered — only the great bells avoided being melted down. Revolutionaries dedicated the cathedral first to the cult of Reason, and then to the cult of the Supreme being. The church interior was used as a warehouse for the storage of food.
It was also here that Napoléon, wishing to emphasize the primacy of the state over the church, crowned himself emperor, and then crowned Joséphine, his Martinique-born wife, as his empress. (The job would normally have been done by an archbishop. Pope Pius VII, there for the occasion, raised no objections.)
During the 19th century, writer Victor Hugo and artists such as Ingres called attention to the dangerous state of disrepair into which the Cathedral had fallen, thus raising a new awareness of its artistic value. Whereas 18th-century neoclassicists had virtually ignored the creations of the Middle Ages — and had even replaced the stained glass at Notre-Dame with normal glass — the 19th-century romantics saw that remote period with new eyes and greater appreciation.
Nighttime view,
with bateaux-mouches
plying the Seine.
© 1997 Index Stock Photography
In his restoration of the cathedral (begun in 1844 and lasting 23 years), Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc reinstated the triforium and small clerestory windows in the eastern bay of the nave. The sculpture on the west facade, badly damaged during the French Revolution, was also restored during this period.
Besides bringing new life to the rose windows and the statues, Viollet-le-Duc combined scientific research with his own very personal creative ideas and designed Notre-Dame's spire, a new feature of the building, and the sacristy. Also in the 19th century, Baron Haussmann (Napoléon III's urban planner) evicted those Parisians whose houses cluttered the Cathedral's vicinity. The houses were torn down to permit better views of the edifice.
During the Commune of 1871, the Cathedral was nearly burned by the Communards — and some accounts suggest that indeed a huge mound of chairs was set on fire in its interior. Whatever happened, Notre-Dame survived the Commune essentially unscathed.
Yet it is the art of Notre-Dame, rather than its history, that still awes. The west front contains 28 statues representing the monarchs of Judea and Israel. The three portals depict, from left to right, the Last Judgment; the Madonna and Child; St. Anne, the Virgin's mother; and Mary's youth until the birth of Jesus. The interior, with its slender, graceful columns, is impressive — there is room for as many as 6,000 worshipers. The three rose windows — to the west, north, and south — are masterful, their colors a glory to behold on a sunny day.
Painstaking
restoration work
in progress.
© 1998 Reuters Limited
All Rights Reserved.
In 1768, geographers decided that all distances in France would be measured from Notre-Dame. One hundred and seventy-six years later, when Paris was liberated during World War II, General de Gaulle rushed to the cathedral after his return, to pray in thanksgiving. In many ways, Notre-Dame was and still is the center of France.
Excavations under the parvis have revealed traces of Notre-Dame's history from Gallo-Roman times to the 19th century. Vestiges of Roman ramparts, rooms heated by hypocaust (an ancient system with underground furnaces and tile flues), medieval cellars, and the foundations of a foundling hospital are displayed, as are several fascinating photographs of the surrounding neighborhood before Baron Haussmann's renovations.
Starting in 1991, a 10 year program of general maintenance and restoration was initiated. While work continues, sections of the structure are likely to be shrouded by scaffolds.
For a look at the upper parts of the church, the river, and much of Paris, climb the 387 steps to the top of one of the towers. The south tower holds Notre-Dame's 13-ton bell, which is rung on special occasions.
Chronological History of Notre-Dame
1239:
The Crown of Thorns placed in the Cathedral by St. Louis during the construction of Sainte-Chapelle.
1302:
Philip the Fair opens the first States General.
1430:
Henri VI of England is crowned. Mary Stuart becomes Queen of France after her marriage to François II, and is crowned.
1572:
Marguerite de Valois is married to the Huguenot Henri de Navarre.
December 2, 1804:
After the anointing by Pius VII, Napoléon seizes the crown from the pontiff and crowns first himself, then Josephine.
August 26, 1944:
The Te Deum Mass celebrates the liberation of Paris. (According to some accounts the Mass was interrupted by snipping from both the internal and external galleries.)
November 12, 1970:
The Requiem Mass of General de Gaulle is held.
May 31, 1980:
After the Magnificat of this day, Pope John Paul II celebrates Mass on the parvis in front of the Cathedral.
The Crypt of Notre-Dame
At the front of Notre-Dame lies a plaza. Until the mid 60s, this site was a warren of buildings dating back to the middle ages, making it difficult to view the Cathedral in all of its glory. When the buildings were finally demolished, archeologists discovered many remains of Gallo-Roman to 19th century life.
In 1965 an excavation was begun, overseen by the "Direction des Antiquités Historiques de I'Ile de France" (M. Fleury, director) and the "Commission du Vieux Paris". A museum, the Archeological Crypt of the Parvis of Notre-Dame, was erected by the city of Paris in order to house these vestiges of earlier civilization. It is the largest structure of its type in the world (total length 118 m, beam length 12 m).
Brass strips have been imbedded in the surface of the plaza to mark the location where the streets and buildings were removed.
Location: 6, place du Parvis Notre Dame, Ile de la Cité, 75004 Paris.
Phone: 01-42-34-56-10. Fax: 01-40-51-70-98. E-mail: info@cathedraleDeParis.com.
Admission: Cathedral — free; Crypt — €5,5 adults, €4,5 reduced rate, €3,5 group rate.
Hours: Cathedral open daily 7:45 a.m. - 6:45 p.m. (closed Sat. 12:30 - 2 p.m.);
Crypt, Apr.-Sept. daily 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Oct.-Mar. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.;
Museum, Wed. and Sat.-Sun. 2:30 - 6 p.m.; Treasury, Mon.-Sat. 9:30 a.m. -5:30 p.m.
Services: Six masses are celebrated on Sunday, four on weekdays and one on Saturday. Morning prayer is held on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. Evensong takes place Mon.-Fri. 5:45 - 6:10 p.m. and Sundays at 5:30 p.m.
Métro: Cité or St-Michel. RER: Châtelet-Les-Halles or St-Michel. Buses: 21, 24, 27, 38, 47, 85, 96
Web site: http://www.cathedraledeparis.com/
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Edited by Ian C. Mills, 1999 — All Rights Reserved.
Bibliography: Ronald E. Malmstrom, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. (Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia v9.0.1., 1997, Grolier Interactive Inc., Danbury, CT). French Gothic Architecture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, Jean Bony, 1985, Univ. of California Press. An Architect's Paris, Thomas Carlson-Reddig, 1993, Bulfinch Architecture/Travel Series (out-of-print). Notre Dame of Paris, Allan Temko, 1955 - repr. 1990, (out-of-print). The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order, Otto von Simpson, 1988, Princeton Univ. Press. The Guide to the Architecture of Paris, Norval White, 1992, Charles Scribner's Sons/Macmillan Publishing Co., New York (out-of-print). The Gothic Cathedral: The Architecture of the Great Church 1130-1530, Christopher Wilson, 1992, Thames & Hudson. Paris From $70 A Day, Jeanne Oliver, 1998, Macmillan Travel, A Simon & Schuster Macmillan Company, New York. Fodor's 99 Paris, Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc., published in the U.S. by Random House, Inc., New York. The Paris Pages (web site).
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Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is the English title of Notre Dame de Paris (1831; Eng. trans., 1831), Victor Hugo's greatest historical romance, which set the fashion for fictional explorations of the past that characterized French romanticism. The story revolves around a beauty-and-the-beast theme, in which the selfless love of the misshapen bell ringer Quasimodo is contrasted with the corrupt lust of the cathedral's archdeacon, Claude Frollo, for the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda. Although the style is realistic, especially in the descriptions of medieval Paris and its underworld, the plot is melodramatic, with many ironic twists. Anticlerical and anti-aristocratic, the novel shows the romanticist's love for medieval grotesquerie.
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Bibliography: Jane Colville Betts, Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. (Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia v9.0.1., 1997, Grolier Interactive Inc., Danbury, CT).
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kini menjadi titik rujukan jarak di paris (0 km)
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| Monday, 14-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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nite view
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| Sunday, 13-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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ARC de Triomphe
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It is hard to believe that the Arc de Triomphe, looming gloriously above the Champs-Elysees at place Charles de Gaulle Etoile, was first designed as a huge, bejeweled elephant. Oh those crazy empire architects. The world's largest triumphal arch crowns a flattened hill between the louvre and Pont de Neuilly. An ideal vantage point that, in 1758, excited the imagination of the architect Ribard, whose ambition it was to erect an anial of monumental proportions. Fortunately for france, construction of this international symbol of her military prowess was not started until 1805, when Napoleon envisioned a monument somewhat more appropriate for welcoming troops home. Unfortunately for Napoleon, he was exiled before the monument was completed. Louis XVIII ordered the completion of the work in 1823 and dedicated the arch to the war in Spain and to its commander, the Duc d'Angouleme. Designed in the end by Chalgrin, the Arc de Triomphe was consecrated in 1836, the names of Napoleon's generals and battles are engraved inside.
Since Napoleon, the arch has been a magnet for various triumphal armies. The victorious prussians marched through in 1871, inspiring the mortified parisians to purify the ground with fire. On july 14, 1919, however, the Arc provided the backdrop for allied celebration parade headed by marechal Foch. His memory is now honored by the boulevard that bears his name and stretches out from the Arc provided into the 16eme. French sanctification of the Arc was frustrated once more during WWII. Frenchmen were reduced to tears as the Nazis goose-stepped through their beloved arch. After the torturous years of Germain occupation, a sympathetic allied army made sure a french general would be the first to drive under the famous edifice.
The tomb of the Unknown soldier has been under the Arc since november 11, 1920. Irs marker bears the inscription "here lies a french soldier who dies for his country, 1914-1918". but represents the 1.500.000 men who died during WWII. Inside the Arc, visitors can climb 205 steps up a winding staircase to the entresol between the Arc's two supports, and 29 further to the museum. There is an elevator for the less ambitious. The lines for it are always long. Forty six steps beyond the museum, the terrasse observation deck, at the top of the Arc, provides a brilliant view of the Champs-Elysees, the tree-lined avenue Foch, and the Axe historique from the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and the Louvre pryramid at one end to the grande arche de la Defense at the other.
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| Saturday, 12-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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Eiffel Tower - at last tercapai matlamat
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The Eiffel Tower was built for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889 commemorating the centenary of the French Revolution. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII of England, opened the tower. Of the 700 proposals submitted in a design competition, Gustave Eiffel's was unanimously chosen. However it was not accepted by all at first, and a petition of 300 names - including those of Maupassant, Emile Zola, Charles Garnier (architect of the Opéra Garnier), and Dumas the Younger - protested its construction.
At 300 meters (320.75 m including antenna), and 7,000 tons, it was the world's tallest building until 1930. Other statistics include:
2.5 million rivets
300 steel workers, and 2 years (1887-1889) to construct it.
Sway of at most 12 cm in high winds.
Height varies up to 15 cm depending on temperature.
15,000 iron pieces (excluding rivets). 40 tons of paint. 1652 steps to the top.
The tower was almost torn down in 1909, but was saved because of its antenna - used for telegraphy at that time. Beginning in 1910 it became part of the International Time Service. French radio (since 1918), and French television (since 1957) have also made use of its stature.
During its lifetime, the Eiffel Tower has also witnessed a few strange scenes, including being scaled by a mountaineer in 1954, and parachuted off of in 1984 by two Englishmen. In 1923 a journalist rode a bicycle down from the first level. Some accounts say he rode down the stairs, other accounts suggest the exterior of one of the tower's four legs which slope outward.
dipetik dari http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/Landmarks/eiffel-history.htm
**jadi ianya bukanlah sekadar besi buruk harap mengerti kenapa masih ader yg nak sgt tgk besi buruk ni termasuklah aku sehingga tersenarai tempat2 yang aku nak pergi... kerana sejarahnya..
lagi lah sedih aku dengar kalu bakal engineer sendiri yang cakap tower nih sekadar besi buruk.. 
setiap sudut perincian binaan itu kan kejuruteraan.
kalau tanpa tower ni aku rasa paris takder tempat letak sistem2 telekomunikasi depa sbb kalu dilihatkan bukannya ader bangunan tinggi2 atau tanah tinggi sekitar paris tuh.. so kalu laa anda seorang bakal engineer tapi tidak menghargai sebuah penciptaan kejayaan kejuruteraan ini sendiri jgn bilang anda seorang jurutera... muahahaha...**
jurutera bukan sekadar tahu ilmu kejuruteraan sahaja tetapi juga ilmu yang lain baru lah kejuruteraan itu selaras dengan fitrah manusia dan kejuruteraan itu diterima pakai sbb atlast manusia gak yg nak guna menda2 tuh semua bukannya mesin..
sekadar pendapat aku..   
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old trafford one day trip
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Sheffield at last - cam mimpi je..
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aishah wedding
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something to share
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