The decision to remove the existing windows in six chapels on the Paris cathedral’s south side, which were created by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in the 19th century, and replace them with ...

The medieval frames of Notre Dame’s nave and choir, built in the 13th century, and those of the spire designed by French architect Viollet-le-Duc, and both arms of the transept, dating from the 19th ...

The original windows, created in the 19th century by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, had escaped the fire without damage. Several historic preservation groups have protested President Emmanuel ...

Paris’s freshly renovated Notre-Dame Cathedral will soon get a distinctively 21st-century touch, having unveiled plans to install new stained glass windows by 43-year-old French artist Claire ...

Exterior view of the cathedral taken in mid-November. Photo by David Bordes © Rebâtir Notre-Dame de Paris In the aftermath of the catastrophe, as efforts began to ...

In the early 1840s, King Louis-Phillipe commissioned architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc to oversee the cathedral's repair and restoration — a project that would take several decades. Viollet-le-Duc ...

While his restoration adhered faithfully to the historical designs of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Villeneuve found a deeply personal way to mark his connection to Notre Dame. He knew he could not etch ...

The 96m-high structure was designed in the 19th century by Jean-Baptiste Lassus and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, to replace a lower bell tower damaged and dismantled in the 1780s. Macron claimed he ...

It was architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc’s modern reimagining of medievalism, designed during his mid-19th-century restoration of the cathedral. He argued that “to restore a building is not to ...

In the 19th century, the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, who was in charge of renovating the then-decaying building, added these creatures to add to the mystique of the cathedral. Viollet-le-Duc ...

Indeed, this need for swift united action may have helped to dismiss calls for a more creative approach in favor of an exacting re-creation of the 1859 version by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.

The statues were designed in 1857 by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc as part of his radical restoration of the cathedral—of which the soaring 96m spire was one of the most dramatic symbols. The figures ...