Notre Dame Cathedral completed in Paris after 182 years of construction.
“Our Lady” in French, its construction had spanned the Gothic period. Construction had commenced back in1163 CE by Bishop of Paris de Sully. The cathedral is widely considered the finest example of French Gothic architecture.
In the 1900s, a major renovation restored the cathedral to its original state prior to desecrations and serious damage during the French Revolution in the 1790s. In the early 1900s Victor Hugo crafts his novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame around the cathedral.