Follett, of course, knows a thing or two about how such monumental buildings are constructed, having written a bestselling three-volume series, beginning with Pillars of the Earth, about the building of an English cathedral. Follett, who immediately went across the Channel to Paris, did a number of interviews on the scene. 29), “the roof collapses, then the falling debris destroys the vaulted ceiling, which also falls and destroys the mighty stone pillars that are holding the whole thing up.”įortunately, amazingly, the pillars held up. “When that burns,” writes Welsh novelist Ken Follett in his new book, Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals (Viking, Oct. Perhaps caused by a carelessly discarded cigarette, perhaps by an electrical malfunction, it burned through the ancient timber supports, tinder-dry after centuries of use. On April 15, 2019, a fire broke out in the subroof of the storied Notre-Dame Cathedral in the heart of Paris, France.
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