Reconstructing Notre-Dame: Of Spires, Burning Dreams & Freezing Time

May 05, 2021

∙ Paid

*A photo circa 1856 was taken by Charles Marville, and shows Viollet-le-Duc’s flamboyant new spire and animated gargoyles.*

These days, Paris’ Notre-Dame Cathedral is a busy (re)construction site, humming with some 200 workers toiling daily to repair the centuries-old Cathedral after a devastating fire there in April 2019. And as I point out in this piece,

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