Notre Dame Cathedral Attic

Notre dame de paris french.

Notre dame cathedral attic.

Monday s fire at the notre dame cathedral started in the attic. The cathedral was undergoing renovations when the fire broke out including to repair attic beams construction engineer olivier de chalus told the times. The popularity of victor hugo s historical novel notre dame de paris 1831 wherein the cathedral is the setting was said to have inspired the renovations. The attic is an oddly shaped space seldom visited that lies above the soaring stone arches visible from the floor of old european cathedrals.

Pictured above is a view of the attic that was posted on the cathedral s website. From notre dame de paris maurice de sully association to kick off the project workers cleared 21 hectares of oak. Diagrams of notre dame and official descriptions of. Notre dame cathedral in september 2018.

During a restoration campaign in 2019 a fire broke out in the cathedral s attic and the massive blaze destroyed most of the roof viollet le duc s 19th century spire and some of the rib vaulting. Meaning our lady of paris referred to simply as notre dame is a medieval catholic cathedral on the île de la cité in the 4th arrondissement of paris the cathedral was consecrated to the virgin mary and considered to be one of the finest examples of french gothic architecture its pioneering use of the rib vault and flying buttress. The attic he added was notre dame s. Nɔtʁə dam də paʁi.