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Hi Marjorie,
This may not be what you are searching for, but I came across the
Chapelle Saint Aignan near ND (XIIth, with sculpted capitels) :
http://catholique-paris.cef.fr/diocese/cdas/lieux/aignan.htm
Emmanuel
On 4/4/06, Marjorie Greene <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> In Allan Temko's (dated) _Notre-Dame of Paris:The Biography of a Cathedral_,
> I find:
>
> "The Parisians elected to save three churches, all the Normans permitted
> them, in exchange for an immense sum of gold and silver....Their choice was
> interesting: the Cathedral of Saint-Etienne, which they evidently valued
> more highly than the Basilica of N-D [omissions and shorthand mine],and the
> abbey churches of Saint-Denis and Saint-Germain-d-P....as they looked at the
> scorched walls of S-E...they may have reconsidered their
> parochialism....they examined the remains of Mary's church, standing
> directly behind Stephen's, and...decided to erect a new cathedral in her
> honor. The Virgin, after three centuries in Paris, had triumphed in the
> midst of disaster."
>
> According to Temko, there was a Marian basilica apart from the cathedral
> which was permitted to be destroyed in favor of Stephen, Denis and Germanus.
> Moreover the cathedral dedication was changed from Stephen, by most accounts
> the first martyr and first saint, to Mary.
> Has Temko been superseded by more recent scholarship or is all this so lost
> in the mists of time, we just don't know?
> MG
>
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