Notre-Dame: The gargoyles of the middle ages and the chimeras of Viollet-Le-DUC
The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame are famous. They were set up at the end of the gutters to evacuate the rain water from the roof and designates only the ends of the water flow ducts. They often have the form of fantastic, even scary animals. They're dating back to the middle ages.
The chimeras on the other hand are fantastic, evil and often grotesque statues.
They only have a decorative effect. We find them at the top of the building at the top of the facade, at the level of the railing crowning the superior gallery that connects the two towers and extends on the four faces of these, the gallery of the chimeras. All angles of this railing serve as support or perch to demons, monsters and fantastic birds. These elements did not exist in the middle ages and are additions incorporated by the architect Eugène Viollet-Le-Duc.
These 54 statues, reconstruction reconstruction of the past, were meant to recreate the fantastic atmosphere in which the middle ages were bathed. These works were designed by Viollet-Le-Duc himself who drew them, inspired by the cartoons of Honoré Daumier, of an illustrated edition of Notre-Dame De Paris of 1844 and his own illustrations of the picturesque and romantic trips in The old France.
They were carried out by the members of a team of 15 sculptors (the main being Victor Pyanet) gathered around Geoffroy-Dechaume.
Among them, the most famous is probably the Stryge, an evil night spirit similar to the vampire, already feared by the Romans, popularized by the engraver Charles Méryon who published a famous engraving in 1850.
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