Notre Dame cathedral survived fire, war, and Napoleon’s redecorating
On April 15, 2019, the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris caught fire. Eyewitnesses in the streets and viewers around the world waited, shaken and silent, as the spire fell, and were on tenterhooks at the thought that its towers could be next.
Author Agnès Poirier vividly re-creates the scene in her superb history of
