'I watched Notre Dame burn. But I know Paris will always endure.' via PostEverything
People pray as Notre Dame burns in Paris on Monday. By Erika Mailman Erika Mailman is a historical novelist living in northern California. Her novel"Betrayed," written under the pen name Lynn Carthage, takes place in Paris. April 16 at 6:00 AM PARIS — Since my family and I arrived for a visit Sunday morning, we’d spent a lot of time outside Notre Dame without actually entering, deterred by long lines.
We followed the crowd on the street, standing beside the Saint-Julien-Le- Pauvre church, just across the river Seine from Notre Dame, with hundreds of others to watch what was initially just a bright fire on the roof behind the two main towers of the cathedral. Our view was from the Left Bank, at four o’clock if Notre Dame was 12.
Our youngest daughter was very anxious, hugging her stuffed mouse. A month ago, seeing her sister get a liquid nitrogen freeze from the dermatologist, she had nearly fainted. I feared she would do so now. We left the scene, with mixed feelings: I wanted to keep our vigil, but it was cruel to force her to stay when she was that upset.
We sought out crepes. As the crepe maker stood there over his circular hot pad, I asked him if he was worried about the fire. “I don't understand,” he said. For a moment, I thought he somehow had not heard about the nearby fire. But with a Gallic shrug, he explained that the fire was behind him. It would not spread. He would simply keep making crepes.
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