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Notre Dame Cathedral

The cathedral up close.

 

Its name means "Our Lady" in French. Notre Dame de Paris was among the first buildings in the world to use the flying buttress (it is usually on a religious building, used to transmit the thrust of a vault across an intervening space (which might be an aisle, chapel or cloister), to a buttress outside the building).

 

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Paris, France

 

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