“It was written, so to speak, in the heat of the moment.” “It took me a week to write,” Follett tells Kirkus Reviews from his home in Hertfordshire, England. So when his French publisher asked him to write a short book about the fire in order to raise funds for the cathedral’s restoration, he jumped to it. Follett, of course, knows a thing or two about how such monumental buildings are constructed, having written a bestselling three-volume series, beginning with Pillars of the Earth, about the building of an English cathedral.
Follett, who immediately went across the Channel to Paris, did a number of interviews on the scene. 29), “the roof collapses, then the falling debris destroys the vaulted ceiling, which also falls and destroys the mighty stone pillars that are holding the whole thing up.”įortunately, amazingly, the pillars held up. “When that burns,” writes Welsh novelist Ken Follett in his new book, Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals (Viking, Oct.
Perhaps caused by a carelessly discarded cigarette, perhaps by an electrical malfunction, it burned through the ancient timber supports, tinder-dry after centuries of use. On April 15, 2019, a fire broke out in the subroof of the storied Notre-Dame Cathedral in the heart of Paris, France.
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