The world was quiet from this height. The air was crisp. Cumulonimbus clouds, drifting away toward Montmartre, revealed the blue of the sky. A gull cried, flying upstream along the Seine. Following the brisk steps of Philippe Jost, the man heading the public agency Rebâtir Notre-Dame (“Rebuilding Notre-Dame”), we passed through the scaffolding surrounding … Continue reading What it took to rebuild Notre-Dame within five years