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Construction of the cathedral began in 1163 under Bishop Maurice de Sully and was largely completed by 1260, though it was modified in succeeding centuries. In the 1790s, during the French Revolution, Notre-Dame suffered extensive destruction with much of its religious imagery damaged or destroyed. In the 19th century, the coronation of Napoleon I and the funerals of many of the French Republic's presidents took place at the cathedral, and in 1831, Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris (in English: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) inspired interest to restore the cathedral, which took place between 1844 and 1864. On August 26, 1944, the Liberation of Paris from German occupation was celebrated in Notre-Dame with the singing of the Magnificat. Beginning in 1963, the cathedral's façade was cleaned of centuries of soot and grime with another cleaning taking place between 1991 and 2000. On April 15, 2019, while the cathedral was undergoing additional renovation and restoration, its roof caught fire and burned for 15 hours, causing serious damage. The flèche (the timber spirelet over the crossing) was destroyed, as was most of the lead-covered wooden roof above the stone vaulted ceiling, which cause some contamination on site and in the surrounding areas. The task of stabilizing the building against potential collapse was completed in November 2020, and reconstruction began in 2021. The interior was reopened in December 2024.

We visited the inside in January 2025. The last time I was inside it was 1998. The only word to describe what the new interior looks like today is "pristine". If you get a chance to go, look up the images of the fire devastation and then compare it to what you see. How quickly they worked to restore is unbelievably incredible.