PARIS | Cathédrale Notre Dame | 96m | Projet de reconstruction

Actually, Reims and Aminens feature the same sort of top, so I do not know if that was really in the original plans...
Reims

Amiens:

Sens (obviously not as planned):

Bourges, considered as the top of the art, has a small roof on the top:

Chartres, with two nice "fleches" (names of these towers, means arrow)

Thorstein said:

A cathedral is never really completed!

I have read some info about Viollet le duc. This architect restored the cathedral during the 19th century, and wanted to add some top like in Cologne or Strasbourg because for him "it was not finished".
I didn't manage to find again this piece of information, but i believe adding tops above cathedrals became fashionable after Notre Dame de Paris has been drawn.

Are there any specialists here?

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True, he built the black arrow in the middle of Notre Dame, its highest point.
That feature got damaged by the Hurricane in decembre 1999.

One story: When the facade was cleaned, in the 90's, historians found out they couldn't identify one of the kings in front of the church. They discovered it was this 19th century architect, Viollet le Duc, that had his head put instead of a king, without anybody noticing it!

The fleche is the big tall thing in black!
Eversince, parisians considered Notre Dame as completed.

this is a sketch from Viollet-Leduc (1863) :

Renaud said:

this is a sketch from Viollet-Leduc (1863) :

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This picture is very similir to the sketch from Leduc:



Is the Cathedral of Burgos

Notre Dame de Paris : architecture intérieure