At the initiative of Bishop Maurice de Sully, it was in the 12th century that work first began to build the Cathedral of Notre-Dame on the Île de la Cité in Paris. The construction was eventually completed in the 14th century. After shedding light on the
The author is a member of the "Institut universitaire de France" and professor of Middle Age history at Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne. She was assisted by Joël Laiter whose photographs reveal Notre-Dame in all its majesty and intimacy.