Notre-Dame De Paris
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...niches extends across the facade, and over this, in the center, is the huge traceried rose window. In the French Revolution rioters converted the cathedral into a "Temple of Reason" and destroyed the sculptures of the west facade. Skillful restorations...