"In the decades after the Napoleonic Wars, Notre-Dame fell into such a state of disrepair that Paris officials considered its demolition. Victor Hugo, who admired the cathedral, wrote the novel Notre-Dame de Paris (published in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) in 1831 to save Notre-Dame. The book was an enormous success, raising awareness of the cathedral's decaying state. The same year as Hugo's novel was published, however, anti-Legitimists plundered Notre-Dame's sacristy. In 1844 King Louis Philippe ordered that the church be restored." -[Wiki]

this one is dedicated to the fe3h fans, a very specific prompt about war leaving a famous church ransacked and in ruins to be restored years later by a ruler ;P (obviously anyone can interpret this as whatever they want tho, hehe)