Tradition has it that Notre-Dame's first stone was laid in 1163 in the presence of Pope Alexander III.<br /> <br /> The new building fell under the new art movement known as the gothic style (or the ogival style).<br /> <br /> In 1965, there was an end to the 30 years of intense debates over whether to replace the nave's 19th century grisaille windows with colour windows made by Jacques Le Chevallier<br /> <br /> Maurice de Sully was bishop of Paris from 1160 to 1196. From the time he was elected, he provided a pastoral, theological and spiritual response to his diocese's deep transformations by rebuilding a cathedral church dedicated to the Virgin Mary (Notre-Dame) and making it a bishop's church, a canon church and a baptistery. This project was the focal point of an enormous urban construction site
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