. Rheims and the battles for its possession . THE CATHEDRAL BEFORE THE WAR 29 Exactly one year later, Archbishop Aubri de Humbert laid the first stone ofa new edifice, which was destined to become the Cathedral of to-day. Begun in 1211, the building went on without pause for twenty years, afterwhich there was a slackening, followed by a vigorous resumption in 1299. An-other pause occurred during the Hundred Years War. The Cathedral, lessthe tower spires provided for in the plans, was finished in 1428. The spireswere not yet built when the great fire of July 24, 1481, entirely destroyed theroof
. Rheims and the battles for its possession . THE CATHEDRAL BEFORE THE WAR 29 Exactly one year later, Archbishop Aubri de Humbert laid the first stone ofa new edifice, which was destined to become the Cathedral of to-day. Begun in 1211, the building went on without pause for twenty years, afterwhich there was a slackening, followed by a vigorous resumption in 1299. An-other pause occurred during the Hundred Years War. The Cathedral, lessthe tower spires provided for in the plans, was finished in 1428. The spireswere not yet built when the great fire of July 24, 1481, entirely destroyed theroof of the Cathedral, further deferring their construction, which was subse-quently abandoned. The funds for this colossal work were furnished partly by the clergy and thepeople, partly by Papal Indulgences granted to donors, and by collections inChristian lands, especially in the ecclesiastical province of Rheims. The won-derful plans of the Cathedral were long believed to be the work of Robert deCoucy, whereas the original ones were in fact d
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