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Notre-Dame rising

Notre-Dame

Architecture

Notre-Dame rising

The rebuilt and revitalized Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris is nearly complete. Will it appease the traditionalists?

William Newton

Is woke Notre-Dame the future of Christianity?

The torched cathedral is being given a coat of secular modernist paint

Grayson Quay

Our lady of hope

Notre-Dame: The Soul of France by Agnès Poirier reviewed

Graham Robb

Notre-Dame is an architectural nullity

Let Lord Foster – the man behind the greatest gothic structure of the past century – restore the roof

Jonathan Meades

Faith

Keep the modernists away from the Notre-Dame restoration

Reconstructions should aim to recreate and not transform the earlier style

Ben Sixsmith

Faith
April 17, 2019
What might Macron’s ‘even more beautiful’ Notre-Dame be like?
Imagining France in 2024
Jonathan Miller
Faith
April 17, 2019
Thank God for western values
The debt of the contemporary West to Christianity is more deeply rooted than many assume
Tom Holland
Faith
April 16, 2019
Notre-Dame is a sign of the times
When it reopens, Notre Dame will be even more a museum, even less a shrine
Dominic Green
Internet
April 16, 2019
Je suis Notre-Dame
Let’s not forget the true victims of the tragic fire: Instagram influencers
Bridget Phetasy
Europe
April 16, 2019
The shame of Notre-Dame
Perhaps the blaze in Paris was the wake-up call that France needed
Jonathan Miller
Europe
April 16, 2019
Notre-Dame’s loss is too much to bear
Ages are judged on what they leave behind
Douglas Murray
Europe
April 15, 2019
Donald Trump’s Notre-Dame fire solution would ‘destroy’ the building, says French fireman
Why using a super-scooper is a bad idea
Cockburn

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