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| | Paris - Vistas Under The Cathedral |
 | | Le Mans is celebrated for its prodigious choir, Rouen for the immense variety of its accessories, Chartres for its glass, its belfrys, its porches, and the originality of its details, Bourges for its unique crypt, Amiens for its unequalled nave, while the splendid portails and marvellous sculpture made the reputation of Rheims and of Notre-Dame. |
 | | The great cathedral, such as we see it to-day, dates in part from the reign of Louis VII, le Jeune, or what is more important, from the time of Maurice de Sully, the seventy-third bishop of Paris, or, in other words, from about the middle of the XIIth century. |
 | | This nova ecclesia was the first to be sacrificed to the handsome construction contemplated by the bishop Maurice de Sully, when about the year 1160 he undertook to make the two churches one. |
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