He was thirty when he won the job, and he would be fifty before it was finished. One of them died suddenly, but the other went on to do the work. Two young architects collaborated on the winning proposal.

The government decided to do something.Ī competition was held to choose the expert who would supervise the renovation of the cathedral. Cétait aussi effarant que si le sol sétait mis à trembler sous nos pieds. Un bien inestimable mourait sous nos yeux. A worldwide bestseller, it attracted tourists and pilgrims to the cathedral, and the half-ruined building they saw shamed the city of Paris. ' Limage de Notre-Dame en flammes ma stupéfié et chaviré au plus profond de moi-même. Notre-Dame had been much abused during the French Revolution and afterwards, Its statuary had been damaged and its nave had been used as a grain store.īoth Hugo's eulogistic descriptions of the beauty of Notre-Dame and his outraged protests about its dereliction moved the readers of his book. Ken Follett was 27 when he wrote his first book, Eye of the Needle, an award-winning thriller.After several more successful thrillers, he surprised everyone with his historical novel Pillars of the Earth, about the building of a cathedral in the Middle Ages.Its long-awaited sequel, World Without End, was also an international bestseller. But, beautifully though it has aged, we must sigh, and we must feel outraged at the degradation and mutilation that time and men have inflicted on this awesome monument. Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals By: Ken Follett Viking / 2019 / Hardcover Write a Review In Stock Stock No: WW880253 Buy Item 15.30 Retail: 17.00 Save 10 (1.70) Quantity: Add To Cart or checkout with Add To Wishlist Product Close-up This product is not available for expedited shipping. The church of Notre-Dame de Paris is still today a majestic and sublime building. At the beginning of Book Three Hugo wrote:

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