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The Saint-Etienne cathedral of Châlons (Châlons-en-Champagne, Marne, France).
Located in one of the oldest dioceses of France, the Gothic cathedral that we know today takes place on the site of Roman remains, and will be built over a long period, between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries.
The building known three spires, one of the sixteenth century, which will burn, struck by lightning in 1668, and two others, of seventeenth century mixing Gothic and Baroque styles. Unfortunately, widely criticized in the nineteenth century, including by Victor Hugo, these two elements will be sacrificed in the name of the architectural coherence of the cathedral, leaving it privated of any elevation, and as it is seeable nowadays.
(The photographs show, in order: the high altar ; the exterior facade of the north transept ; the main vault from the nave ; the pillars of the nave ; the stained glass windows and the rose window of the north portal, an internal view ; a view of one of the galleries along the nave ; some gargoyles of the exterior facade ; the nave again ; the organs ; and finally, the rose window of the north portal again. The original photographs are not mine and are under free license)
