Letters: ‘My Heart Broke When I Found Out Notre-Dame Was Burning’

Letters: ‘My Heart Broke When I Found Out Notre-Dame Was Burning’

On Monday, Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, France, caught fire. Parts of the structure—which had survived plague and wars of religion, the French Revolution, and the Nazis—were severely damaged, including the iconic spire and wooden roof. Rachel Donadio argued that the devastation in Paris this week laid bare all the paradoxes of France.