Notre-Dame de Reims
(Our Lady of Reims) is the seat
of the Archdiocese of Reims, where the kings of France were crowned. The cathedral replaced an older church, destroyed by
fire in 1211, that was built on the site of the basilica where Clovis was
baptized by Saint Remi, bishop of Reims, in AD 496. That original structure had
itself been erected on the site of some Roman baths. A major tourism
destination, the cathedral receives about one million visitors annually. Excavations
have shown that the present building occupies roughly the same site as the
original cathedral, founded c.400 under the episcopacy of St Nicaise. Source
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