7/5/2023 0 Comments Notre-Dame by Ken Follett![]() ![]() Notre-Dame has some of the most famous grotesques in all of Europe, but the creatures, and that legend, originated in nearby Rouen. ![]() Legend has it that gargoyles are supposed to prevent this sort of thing. They were largely successful, but within two hours the fire had spread throughout the roof, and the seven-hundred-and-fifty-ton spire had fallen, along with most of the latticed timbers of the vaulted ceiling. Priests and firefighters raced to save the relics, liturgical artifacts, and art inside. The fire started early in the evening, sparking in the dry rafters of the roof. For a hundred and seventy-five years, they protected Notre-Dame de Paris from war, weather, and tourists-and, arguably, they managed to do the same under considerable duress one year ago, when, on April 15th, a blaze nearly destroyed one of the world’s most famous cathedrals. ![]()
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