>>6195718 lb
>>6195809 lb
My textbook is buried somewhere and the library book I read was from the 1870s and in French kek.
But here's a hodge-podge of shit I found in the meantime kek:
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/adw/gravely/overview.html
https://mymodernmet.com/what-is-a-gargoyle/2/
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/11/24/gargoyles-of-notre-dame/
https://books.google.com/books?id=XvlwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=gargoyle+grew+increasingly+grotesque&source=bl&ots=hDLBOWPtww&sig=ACfU3U2NFKyk_UHkVPBCTo6U-deEpLUPig&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiM0sCO89PhAhWiiOAKHXrzBPsQ6AEwFXoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=gargoyle%20grew%20increasingly%20grotesque&f=false
Problem is many of the original gargoyles/grotesques were destroyed either by nature or by humans, so it's kind of hard to say exactly how much of the old was crazy-out-there demonic. Though I have a tendency to believe that tamer things were purposefully destroyed over time to make way for the crazier New Order shit.
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, guy who re-did ND in Paris in the 1800s:
"He believed that the restoration of the gargoyles and other grotesques on the building was a 'means to re-establish [the church] to a finished state, which may in fact never have actually existed at any given time.'"
That one face reminds me of Demon Boy Strzok kek…