Our Lady has, thank God, escaped destruction by fire.
Throughout its long history, it has escaped all the perils that threatened it: the Wars of Religion, the anticlerical fury of the Committee of Public Safety, the invasion of the Cossacks in 1815, the destructive follies of the Paris Commune, the "Fat Bertha" during the First World War.
A masterpiece of medieval architecture, it was saved in extremis from decrepitude, even demolition, by the combined efforts of Victor Hugo, Mérimée and Viollet-le-Duc.
She miraculously escaped it all.
Perhaps not, alas, to the reformist pruritus of Mgr Aupetit, the Archbishop of Paris, whom a sudden illumination, of a crazy originality it must be admitted, converted like everyone else to the fashion of contemporary creation .
This gentleman prelate wants nothing less than to give a modern touch to the cathedral by asking contemporary artists to replace the stained glass windows destroyed by
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