Notre-Dame’s devastating fire in 2019 destroyed many of Viollet-le-Duc’s gargoyles, but artisans have been working to recreate the beloved ghouls from photographs. The restored sculptures are ...

Throughout the system, water shoots out of the gargoyle statues' mouths, away from the church walls. This effective drainage system, restored by Viollet-le-Duc and maintained since, is still at ...

Why not adopt your very own gargoyle, or a statue of Saint Paul? Many are the work of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, the architect who led the 1844 restoration of the church. He individually named the ...

Five of the gargoyles (products of Viollet-le-Duc’s imagination) were scanned by computer, and then re-made in limestone. Inside the cathedral, the most famous sculptures – such as The Virgin ...