April 17: Notre-Dame’s spell. Plus other letters to the editor GlobeDebate
Fire officers survey a section of the Notre-Dame Cathedral following a major fire on April 16, 2019. A blaze broke out on Monday afternoon and quickly spread across the building, causing the famous spire to collapse.I have visited Paris many times, studied there, lived there. But I am never “there” until I have paid my respects toDid you know the city’s mileage indicators give the distance to Notre-Dame? Not to city hall. To Notre-Dame.
Years later, in 1976, a friend and I rented a garret room on the Left Bank, overlooking Notre-Dame. The sun emerged from rain clouds just at dusk, its low, warm light flooding the cathedral. Above it, two densely coloured rainbows arched over Notre- Dame. Postcard 2. I am desolate. How wonderful it would be for something good to rise from this inferno, with differences put aside as the world as one helps to rebuild Notre-Dame.Story continues below advertisement
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