GALLERY OF KINGS

Beneath the Virgin’s Gallery on the western façade (location of the 10-metre-diameter western rose window and two stained-glass lancet windows) is the Gallery of Kings consisting of 28 statues of the kings of Judah. Most of the originals (sculpted between 1200 and 1240) were beheaded by

French revolutionaries in 1793, believing them to be kings of France. They were replaced during the 19th century restoration, with 21 heads and 350 fragments from other damaged statues eventually found in 1977.