It may be a surprise to learn that the gruesome faced statues most of us associate with Notre-Dame are not gargoyles, and that the majority of these statues were carved after the publication of ...

Much as been written and said about the grand reopening and restoration of France's Notre Dame, perhaps the world’s most famous cathedral, but for its famous gargoyles this is far from their ...

It may be a surprise to learn that the gruesome faced statues most of us associate with Notre-Dame are not gargoyles, and that the majority of these statues were carved after the publication of Victor ...

Above the western entrance, its 28 statues of the kings of Judah were pulled down, beheaded and used to fill in roadworks. Robespierre dreamed of making Notre-Dame a shrine for his cult of the ...

Firefighters saved the towers — famously featured in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Some of the limestone gargoyles and grotesques ... The 16 copper statues below the spire, which represent ...

Richard Fausset Catherine Porter and Tim Balk Reporting from Paris Five years after a runaway fire devoured its roof, a renovated Notre-Dame Cathedral ... such a lovely spit shine, particularly ...

The Prince of Wales is to join Donald Trump at the official reopening of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris ... as stonemasons working to repair statues and gargoyles. The King joked with the ...