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Our Lady Of Paris Endures

Our Lady Of Paris Endures

The Cathedral of Notre Dame, diminished, but unbowed

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May 19, 2021
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Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, 9:20 pm, May 19, 2021

Today was the first day the restaurants of Paris re-opened after the long Covid lockdown, though they are only permitted to serve customers on terraces. Every terrace in the city today was full, naturally. I went to lunch with my publicist and a French journalist. We three squeezed into a small spac…

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