The continent offers the allure of permanence. But it’s always falling apart — and being rebuilt.
A bus of tourists passes by the Notre Dame Cathedral a day after a massive fire destroyed part of the Parisian landmark. By Griff Witte Griff Witte Europe-focused correspondent with extensive experience in the Middle East and South Asia Email Bio Follow April 16 at 3:08 PM PARIS — Europe tempts the soul with the promise of the eternal.
Over the course of a few hours, a perfectly rendered tableau of stone and wood and glass that seemed fixed and never-changing — as familiar to our grandparents as it would be to our grandchildren — was swallowed in an inferno of smoke and flame. The cathedral’s stone exterior, shown Tuesday, survived the devastating blaze. In Europe’s politics, demographics and relations with the rest of the world, there is little these days that could be mistaken for stasis.
President Emmanuel Macron hadn’t even waited for the flames to stop their spread Monday night before declaring that Notre Dame would be rebuilt.That response was typical Tuesday of the Parisian take. But Mouton is hardly the typical Parisian. What will follow now, Mouton said, is a painstaking restoration. It will take a year or two just to conduct studies and make a plan. No one knows how many years the work itself will last.Macron on Tuesday evening said the cathedral would be renovated within five years.The president probably would have found agreement Tuesday among the thick crowds that encircled the singed and stricken cathedral, getting as close as police would allow.
In Germany, such stories are common. So much of the country was leveled by Allied bombing and street-to-street combat. Much was lost forever. But much was also reborn.
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