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The cathedral was then dedicated to the cult of Reason and later to the cult of the Supreme being, and was used for food storage. Napoléon crowned himself emperor here in 1804, a symbol for the power of the state over the church. In the 1800s, Victor Hugo, among other artists, decried the run-down state of Notre Dame. Thus a restoration followed. ................
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