TIL Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris (aka The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) was written in part to help save the cathedral from demolition.
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Wow, this is very cool. I was just there last week and our guide (from Viator) mentioned this and I was kinda surprised I had never heard that. She must've read this article. I also learned that during the fire the molten lead from the roof drained like water through the gutters on top of the flying buttresses probably saving the entire building from collapsing.
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