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# Cathedral without its spire, draped in mourning for the funeral of the Duke of Orléans
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/stareishee-foto-notr-dam-de-pari-eto-7-santimetrovyi-daggerotip-1842-goda-avtorstva-marka-antuana-godena/
- Published: 2025-03-05T05:41:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:45:11.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Architecture, Faith, Paris

The oldest photograph of Notre-Dame de Paris is a seven-centimetre daguerreotype of 1842 by Marc-Antoine Gaudin.

If you have noticed, the cathedral is captured without its famous spire: it was taken down in the eighteenth century, having grown badly decrepit over six hundred years. The spire was built anew only in 1859, by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, architect and restorer of the medieval monuments of France.

We see the cathedral in mourning drapery: the decoration is connected with the funeral of the Duke of Orléans.