The city was first on the island Lutece in 52 BC.  Notre Dame Cathedral was started in1163, and nt completed until 1345.  It was dedicated to the Goddess of Reason after the French Revolution, and Napoleon I was crowned there.  Interior dimensions are 427 feet long, 164 feet wide, and 115 feet high.  It has a Treasury, which houses sacred relics like a fragment of the True Cross, the Crown of Thorns, and the Holy Nail.  This page is all pictures of the outside of my favorite thing I visited in Paris.

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