Workers on the roof of Notre-Dame work to remove the burnt scaffolding which hampered the safety of the cathedral damaged by the April 15, 2019 fire on Nov. 24, 2020, in Paris. (Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images)
PARIS -- A slender taper of latticework, its filigree etched in flame against a smoke-darkened sky. Falling.
When the world's most recognizable cathedral, Notre Dame de Paris, burned on April 15, 2019, the toppling of its spire was the catastrophe's defining moment -- a dreamlike loop endlessly replayed, a stuttering stop-time...
