Photo TidbitsReims Cathedral

By Jim and Emmy Humberd

In 1211, Archbishop Humbert laid the first stone of what became the present Cathedral of Notre Dame. Joan of Arc had her King Charles VII crowned here in 1429. The Reims Cathedral, like the Notre Dames of Paris and Amiens, has two towers without spires, a huge rose window, and three portals. Reims has a smaller rose window, just above the center doors.

At the end of WW I, the Cathedral was in ruins. Restoration was financed by John Rockefeller, and the street right in front, is named Rue Rockefeller. One group of stained glass windows was fashioned, since WW II, by the artist, Marc Chagall.

The sign on the Bibliothéque Municipale De Rheims, right next to the cathedral, says 'Carnegie Library,' one of the 2,509 libraries built by Andrew Carnegie.

Books by Jim and Emmy Humberd:
Invitation to France
Invitation to Germany
Invitation to Italy

Related Link:
Reims Cathedral Photos
History of Gothic Architecture : Cathedral, Reims No.1
Reims, Notre-Dame Cathedral

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