Notre Dame is only important from a Shakespeare’s-birthplace point of view. Architecturally it is a nullity beside the cathedrals of Beauvais and Laon, Albi and Marseille, Rouen and Clermont-Ferrand (a sinister marvel of black tufa).
The ashes of the cathedral are now the site of a proxy struggle between some of the greatest fortunes on the planet.
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