Reply To: The Pope
The place has an interesting history:
“1793-4 As the French Revolution begins the cathedral is rededicated to the Cult of Reason, then the Cult of the Supreme Being. Many of its treasures either destroyed or plundered. Twenty-eight statutes of biblical kings in the west façade, mistaken for statutes of French kings, were beheaded.”
It was nationalised in 1905 when the State and Roman Catholic Church were separated and like all French catholic churches is state property.