Editing Notre-Dame de Paris (section)

===French Revolution and Napoleon===
After the [[French Revolution]] in 1789, Notre-Dame and the rest of the church's property in France was seized and made public property.{{sfn|Archives parlementaires, Vol. 22|pp=202–05}} The cathedral was rededicated in 1793 to the [[Cult of Reason]], and then to the [[Cult of the Supreme Being]] in 1794.{{sfn|Duvergier|1825|p=281}} During this time, many of the treasures of the cathedral were either destroyed or plundered. The twenty-eight statues of biblical kings located at the west façade, mistaken for statues of French kings, were beheaded.<ref name="notredamedeparis.fr"/><ref name="Alexander">{{Cite web |date=12 April 2023 |title=Visiting Notre Dame Cathedral – Find Cheap Holidays |url=https://cheapholidayhacks.com/holidaydestinations/visiting-notre-dame-cathedral/ |website=cheapholidayhacks.com |access-date=12 April 2023 |archive-date=5 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605133851/https://cheapholidayhacks.com/holidaydestinations/visiting-notre-dame-cathedral/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Many of the heads were found during a 1977 excavation nearby, and are on display at the [[Musée de Cluny]]. For a time the [[Liberty (personification)|Goddess of Liberty]] replaced the Virgin Mary on several altars.{{sfn|Herrick|2004|pp=75–76}} The cathedral's great bells escaped being melted down. All of the other large statues on the façade, with the exception of the statue of the Virgin Mary on the portal of the cloister, were destroyed.<ref name="notredamedeparis.fr"/> The cathedral came to be used as a warehouse for the storage of food and other non-religious purposes.<ref name=Chavis/>

With the [[Concordat of 1801]], [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] restored Notre-Dame to the Catholic Church; this was finalised on 18 April 1802. Napoleon also named Paris's new bishop, [[Jean-Baptiste de Belloy]], who restored the cathedral's interior. [[Charles Percier]] and [[Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine]] made quasi-Gothic modifications to Notre-Dame for the [[coronation of Napoleon]] as [[Emperor of the French]] within the cathedral. The building's exterior was [[whitewash]]ed and the interior decorated in [[Neoclassical architecture|Neoclassical]] style, then in vogue.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris|url=https://www.napoleon.org/magazine/lieux/cathedrale-notre-dame-de-paris/|publisher=Foundation Napoleon|access-date=25 April 2019|language=fr|archive-date=5 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220505224111/https://www.napoleon.org/magazine/lieux/cathedrale-notre-dame-de-paris/|url-status=live}}</ref>

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File:Fête de la Raison 1793.jpg|The [[Cult of Reason]] is celebrated at Notre-Dame during the [[French Revolution]] (1793)
File:Percier et Fontaine 004.jpg|Arrival of [[Napoleon]] at the east end of Notre-Dame for his [[coronation of Napoleon I|coronation]] as [[Emperor of the French]] on 2 December 1804
File:Jacques-Louis David - The Coronation of Napoleon (1805-1807).jpg|The [[coronation of Napoleon]], on 2 December 1804 at Notre-Dame, as portrayed in the 1807 painting ''[[The Coronation of Napoleon]]'' by [[Jacques-Louis David]]
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