High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvi re is a minor basilica in Lyon. It was built with private funds between 1872 and 1884 in a dominating position in the city. One author makes the possibly questionable statement that: "The reaction to the communes of Paris and Lyon were triumphalist monuments, the Sacr -Coeur of Montmartre and the basilica of Fourvi re, dominating both cities. These buildings were erected...