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, our correspondent in Paris who has been covering the Notre Dame Cathedral fire, for his take on the city's mood in the aftermath of the massive blaze that torched Paris’s “eternal backdrop to life,” as James puts it. As he notes below, French President Emmanuel Macron ambitiously vowed to rebuild theJames sent us an early morning email with some observations on the devastating week:“The mood in Paris is funereal, even though no one died in the blaze.
“But Monday's fire underscored a real fragility. The mood is heavy because that fragility is ultimately a result of neglect, which says something about people today. The feeling is that we've all failed to be proper custodians of the legacy we've inherited.”“Some say that Macron has been more presidential during the Notre Dame fire than he has at any other point since his election in May 2017.
We still don't know the full extent of the damages and the costs of repairs, but that's an issue to watch.”
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