. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . ..ia>0uȣ:. ^ SOUTH DOOR OK NOTRE DAME. 238 PARIS AND ITS STORY sculpture of the tympanum was cut through to make aloftier and wider entrance, and the whole symmetry of thewest front was grievously destroyed. This hideous archi-tectural deformity remained until a son of the Revolution,Viollet-le-Duc, restored the portal to its original the havoc wrought at Notre Dame, Soufflots energieswere diverted to the holy mount of St. Genevieve. LouisXV. had attributed his recovery at Metz to the intercess
. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . ..ia>0uȣ:. ^ SOUTH DOOR OK NOTRE DAME. 238 PARIS AND ITS STORY sculpture of the tympanum was cut through to make aloftier and wider entrance, and the whole symmetry of thewest front was grievously destroyed. This hideous archi-tectural deformity remained until a son of the Revolution,Viollet-le-Duc, restored the portal to its original the havoc wrought at Notre Dame, Soufflots energieswere diverted to the holy mount of St. Genevieve. LouisXV. had attributed his recovery at Metz to the intercessionof the saint, and in 1754, when the abbot complained to theking of the almost ruined condition of the abbey church, hefound a sympathetic listener. Soufflot and the chapter,who shared the prevalent contempt of Gothic, decided toabandon the venerable old pile, with its millennial associa-tions of the patron saint of Paris, and to build a granddomed classic temple on the abbey lands to the west. Fundsfor the sacred work were raised by levying a tax on publiclotteries. The old c
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