History of Paris flooded the church with light. This style, which later was named Gothic, was copied by other Paris churches: the Priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs, Saint-Pierre de Montmartre, and Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and quickly spread to England and Germany. An even more ambitious building project, a new cathedral for Paris, was begun by bishop Maurice de Sully in about 1160, and it continued for two centuries. The first stone of the choir of the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris was laid in 1163, and the altar was consecrated in 1182. The façade was built between 1200 and 1225, and the two towers were built
Paris during the Bourbon Restoration instead of shopping only in their own neighborhood. It was soon followed by two similar stores, "Aux Trois Quartiers" (1829) and "Le Petit Saint Thomas" (1830). These are considered by historians the ancestor of the modern department stores, which appeared in Paris the 1840s and 1850s. Another retail innovation took place in December 1824, when the store "la Fille d'honneur" at 26 rue de la Monnaie became to first store in France to put price tags on items. The Passage des Panoramas, opened at the very end of the 18th century, was a model for the new Parisian covered shopping