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en-wikipedia-org-3561		Gothic Revival architecture - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	13042	1861	65	Hugo intended his book to awaken a concern for the surviving Gothic architecture left in Europe, however, rather than to initiate a craze for neo-Gothic in contemporary life.[46] In the same year that Notre-Dame de Paris appeared, the new French restored Bourbon monarchy established an office in the Royal French Government of Inspector-General of Ancient Monuments, a post which was filled in 1833 by Prosper Mérimée, who became the secretary of a new Commission des Monuments Historiques in 1837.[47] This was the Commission that instructed Eugène Viollet-le-Duc to report on the condition of the Abbey of Vézelay in 1840.[48] Following this, Viollet le Duc set to restore most of the symbolic buildings in France including Notre Dame de Paris,[49] Vézelay,[50] Carcassonne,[51] Roquetaillade castle,[52] the famous Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey on its peaked coastal island,[53] Pierrefonds,[54] and Palais des Papes in Avignon.[51] When France's first prominent neo-Gothic church[f] was built, the Basilica of Saint-Clotilde,[g] Paris, begun in September 1846 and consecrated 30 November 1857, the architect chosen was, significantly, of German extraction, Franz Christian Gau, (1790–1853); the design was significantly modified by Gau's assistant, Théodore Ballu, in the later stages, to produce the pair of flèches that crown the west end.[57]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3561.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3561.txt