French President Emmanuel Macron has toured Paris's Notre-Dame cathedral live on TV ... including the famous (but not medieval) gargoyles and chimaeras – were damaged by high-pressure hoses ...

The actual gargoyles, which are monster-shaped ... In 1792, revolutionaries also decapitated 28 statues from Notre Dame’s facade, mistaking them for French monarchs. They were actually ancient ...

Victor Hugo's novel Hunchback of Notre-Dame is known to the French simply as Notre Dame de Paris. The last time the cathedral suffered major damage was during the French Revolution, when statues ...

Before the French Revolution, Notre Dame had its famous bells ... Notre Dame as a cultural and spiritual heritage of humanity. Gargoyles and whimsical sculptures on Notre Dame appeared only ...

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We most often associate grotesques and gargoyles with the gothic cathedrals and churches of central Europe. Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris reportedly contains over 5,000 examples. Another style of ...

The Notre-Dame fire’s ashes could be used to 3D-print its new gargoyles A Dutch company promises that it can use broken stone and ash to print perfect replicas of its ornate stonework.