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    Notre-Dame de Paris (French: [nɔtʁ(ə) dam də paʁi] ; meaning "Our Lady of Paris"), referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral...
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    The Spire of Notre-Dame de Paris is located above the cross-section of the cathedral's Transept. Notre-Dame de Paris has had three timber spires made...
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    of Notre-Dame de Paris, a medieval Catholic cathedral in Paris, France. By the time the fire was extinguished, the cathedral's wooden spire (flèche) had...
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    destruction in the Notre-Dame de Paris fire, while the 16th century flèche of Amiens Cathedral is 148 feet (45 m) high. The highest flèche in the world was...
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    with a seating capacity of six-and-a-half thousand. The flèche, or Spire of Notre-Dame de Paris, originally built in 1220–1230, was removed in the 17th...
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    Notre-Dame de Reims (/ˌnɒtrə ˈdɑːm, ˌnoʊtrə ˈdeɪm, ˌnoʊtrə ˈdɑːm/; French: [nɔtʁə dam də ʁɛ̃s] ; meaning "Our Lady of Reims"), known in English as Reims...
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    Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, or Cathédrale de Strasbourg, German: Liebfrauenmünster zu Straßburg), also...
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    Rouen Cathedral (French: Cathédrale primatiale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Rouen) is a Catholic church in Rouen, Normandy, France. It is the see of...
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    his life in serving the needs of the poor. A founder of the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal, he also helped to establish the French colony of Montreal...
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    Notre-Dame de la Gare (French: Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Gare de Paris) is a Roman Catholic parish church located on Place Jeanne-d'Arc in the 13th arrondissement...
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    storms and repaired in the following years but, unlike the flèche of Notre Dame de Paris, never entirely redesigned and rebuilt. It still retains much...
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    The Société Notre-Dame de Montréal, otherwise known as the Société de Notre-Dame de Montréal pour la conversion des Sauvages de la Nouvelle-France, was...
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  • 1965: La Flèche de Notre-Dame de Paris 1965: Viollet-le-Duc à Rome, 30 octobre 1836–4 juin 1837 1968: Restauration de Notre-Dame de Paris : Découverte...
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    Spire (section Flèches)
    to adorn the flèche. The most famous flèche was the Neo-Gothic 19th-century design by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc for the Notre-Dame de Paris, 100 feet (30...
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    double flying buttresses. The façade of Notre-Dame de Paris (begun 1163) With flèche Nave of Notre-Dame de Paris, 122 meters long Gothic elements, often...
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  • The Paris Zoological Park (parc zoologique de Paris), formerly known as the Bois de Vincennes Zoological Park (French pronunciation: [bwɑ d(ə) vɛ̃sɛn])...
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  • include: Trois Fables de Lafontaine (1935) Six Etudes (pour Piano) Trois Images Slaves Impressions de Mer Sonate pour Notre-Dame de Paris for orchestra Sonata...
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    Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (category Architects from Paris)
    medieval landmarks in France. His major restoration projects included Notre-Dame de Paris, the Basilica of Saint Denis, Mont Saint-Michel, Sainte-Chapelle...
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    naturalist and founder of La Flèche Zoo in 1946. Jean de la Flèche: first lord of La Flèche. Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière, Sieur de La Dauversière (1597–1659):...
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    Reims on October 27, 1777 and became Abbot commendatory of the abbey Notre-Dame de Cercamp from 1777 to 1789. Talleyrand-Périgord was a member of the Assembly...
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    Philippe, Marquis de Lons en Béarn ..." La Chenaye-Desbois 1866, p. 642, line 36. "... et Charlotte-Catherine, abbesse de Notre-Dame-du-Ronceray à Angers ...
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    called de la Flèche or de Baugency, was the Count of Maine, succeeding his cousin Hugh V, Count of Maine. He was the son of Jean de la Flèche and Paula...
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    at the age of nineteen, Laval left La Flèche to study philosophy and theology at the College de Clermont in Paris. However the death of his two eldest...
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  • countries. The Flèches de France are permanent rides, not team events like the Flèche Vélocio. There are 20 routes, each one connecting Paris with some city...
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    lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, opened in Paris in 1980, and Notre Dame de Paris, also based on a novel by Victor Hugo, with music composed...
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    Gothic architecture (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    sculpture. Amiens Cathedral has a flèche. The most famous example was that of Notre-Dame de Paris. The original flèche of Notre-Dame was built on the crossing...
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    stone and terracotta, some of which come from the nearby church of Notre-Dame de Pringé, as well as a set of stained glass windows created by François...
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  • her territories. That same year, independently, he joined the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal, an organization dedicated to the conversion of the people...
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    more directly accessible. It is in Gothic style and its full name is Notre-Dame-de-la-Couture. The suffix "sewing" does not refer to the action of "sewing"...
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    Gaspard-Louis de Bourbon, count of Châlus, been born on May 16, 1745, died in Bets December 8, 1751, is interred in the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris. Pierre...
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