Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Notre Dame, 1838

Louis Daguerre made this image of Notre Dame in 1838:


That was the year before Daguerre publicly unveiled the photographic process that came to be called daguerrotype.

Note that there was no spire on the cathedral at this time: it had been damaged by wind and removed in the later years of the 18th century, then restored during the post-Hunchback renovation of the mid-19th century.

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