Notre-Dame Rises From the Ashes

1240.225 - 1264.741 Michael Kimmelman

And finally, after five years of begging and pleading and leaning really heavily on our wonderful colleague Aurelien Bredin in Paris, we got the word in June. We could come in one day next week. I didn't know what that meant, whether we had an hour or 45 minutes, whether we had two hours. We had that all day. I didn't know who we were seeing, but I packed my bags and flew to Paris. Right.