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 ...

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 ...