Notre Dame Architecture, Episode 5
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2014
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Join Us in France Travel Podcast
In today's episode, Elyse tells us about the architecture of Notre Dame in Paris. She explains the architectural innovations that were tried for the first time at Notre Dame (construction started in 1163), the art you will see at Notre Dame, the function of stained glass windows, the architectural purpose of chimeras and gargoyles, and many things about medieval architecture where we probably would benefit from a short refresher before going to visit this magnificent church.
Many medieval visitors were illiterate, but back then, they knew how to read the statues and stained-glass windows they saw in Cathedrals. Most of us have lost this knowledge today, this episode is also a quick course in how to read a cathedral by looking at the art and the architecture.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we start this episode about Paris, let me take a second to tell you that I now offer |
| 0:05.6 | audio tours of different Paris neighborhoods via a smartphone app called Voicemap. |
| 0:11.5 | I wish I could show all of my listeners around in person but unfortunately |
| 0:16.4 | there is not enough of me to go around so I hope you'll find taking me |
| 0:20.6 | around in your phone to be an acceptable compromise. |
| 0:24.0 | If you'd like to try a self-guided tour where I show you Paris |
| 0:28.0 | and tell you some amazing stories exactly where they happened, |
| 0:32.0 | download the Voice Map app on your phone and look for |
| 0:35.7 | tours in Paris by Annie Sergeant. You can order tours through the app on your |
| 0:41.5 | phone but if you'd like to enjoy a special discount for |
| 0:44.7 | podcast listeners visit join us in France.com forward slash audio tours to order your |
| 0:51.4 | tour activation codes and I'll see you in Paris. |
| 0:55.0 | This is Join Us in France, episode 5. |
| 1:00.0 | Hello, I'm Annie. And I'm Elise. |
| 1:02.8 | And we welcome you to the Join Us in France podcast, |
| 1:06.4 | the show where we share the best of France. |
| 1:09.5 | Elise is a professional tour guide and art historian. And this is the podcast where we tell you |
| 1:14.5 | how to prepare your trip to France and share with you everything you need to know to have a |
| 1:18.9 | great time in France. On today's show we're going to be talking about the beautiful cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris and Elise will describe it for us and tell us what we should be looking at while there. |
| 1:31.0 | On Join us in France.com you will find our show notes and we hope |
| 1:35.7 | you'll also visit and say hello and have we have some extras for you there. |
| 1:39.6 | And now a little music to get us in the mood and then we'll jump right into it. Hi Annie. Hi Elise how are you? I'm fine. Good. Well we are going to pick up where we left off. Do you remember? Yes I do. |
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