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The Proposal to Restore Notre Dame the Latest Challenge to the Grand Cathedral

The Proposal to Restore Notre Dame the Latest Challenge to the Grand Cathedral
A worker walks on the roof of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral two years after the blaze that made the spire collapse and destroyed much of the roof, in Paris on April 15, 2021. Benoit Tessier/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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There is something piercingly and hauntingly disturbing about the just-revealed proposal for the renovation of Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, which was badly damaged by fire in April 2019.

Conrad Black
Conrad Black
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Conrad Black has been one of Canada’s most prominent financiers for 40 years and was one of the leading newspaper publishers in the world. He’s the author of authoritative biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, and, most recently, “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other,” which has been republished in updated form. Follow Conrad Black with Bill Bennett and Victor Davis Hanson on their podcast Scholars and Sense.
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