Can anyone tell me some intresting facts on Notre Dame Cathedral Thanks?
Unsurprisingly, the cathedral stands on the site of two earlier churches, a temple to Jupiter, the supreme god in the Roman religion and the Cathedral of St. Etienne, founded in 528 by Chidebert, one of the sons of Frankish King, Clovis I. In the middle of XIIth Century, the bishop of Paris, Maurice de Sully decided that a new cathedral was needed as Paris was rapidly expanding. Principal construction started in 1163 and ended in 1250, but there were many additions, such as chapels and transept crossings, extending building work until 1345. When thinking about the present stained glass windows, they began as small clerestory windows and then were enlarged during the middle of the XIIIth Century. This caused the cathedral to become a three-story church instead of a regular four-story thus giving large expanses of space and being one of the many breaks with architectural tradition. There are three main rose windows, one in the west, north and south respectively. Sadly, the XVIIIth saw so
