Editing Notre-Dame de Paris (section)

==Ownership==
Until the French Revolution, Notre-Dame was the property of the archbishop of Paris and therefore the [[Catholic Church]]. It was nationalized on 2 November 1789 and since then has been the property of the French state.<ref>{{cite news|title=À qui appartient la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris?|url=https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/aqui-appartient-la-cathedrale-notre-dame-de-paris-1674259.html|date=16 April 2019|work=[[BFM TV]]|language=fr|access-date=17 April 2019|archive-date=26 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200526074514/https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/aqui-appartient-la-cathedrale-notre-dame-de-paris-1674259.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Under the Concordat of 1801, use of the cathedral was returned to the Church, but not ownership. Legislation from 1833 and 1838 clarified that cathedrals were maintained at the expense of the French government. This was reaffirmed in [[1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State|the 1905 law on the separation of Church and State]], designating the Catholic Church as having the exclusive right to use it for religious purposes in perpetuity. Notre-Dame is one of seventy historic churches in France with this status. The archdiocese is responsible for paying the employees, for security, heating and cleaning, and for ensuring that the cathedral is open free of charge to visitors. The archdiocese does not receive subsidies from the French state.<ref>{{cite web|title=Loi du 9 décembre 1905 concernant la séparation des Eglises et de l'Etat.|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006070169&dateTexte=20080306|language=fr|publisher=Government of France|access-date=29 April 2019|archive-date=5 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005110109/https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006070169&dateTexte=20080306|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Communique of the Press and Communication Service of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame-de-Paris, November 2014.</ref>