Often a symbol and reflection of French political power, the cathedral was vandalized through the French Revolution while Napoleon Bonaparte used it to reinstate monarchic rule with his coronation as Emperor.

通常是法国政治权力的象征和反映，这座大教堂在法国大革命期间遭到破坏，而拿破仑利用这座大教堂恢复了君主统治，并加冕成为皇帝。

Democracy is full of menace to all the finer hopes of civilization, and the revival, in not unnatural companionship with it, of monarchic power based on militarism, makes the prospect dubious enough.

民主对文明的所有美好希望充满了威胁，而基于军国主义的君主权力的复兴，与它并非不自然地相伴，使前景变得非常可疑。