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The Lost Voice of Notre-Dame

The devastating fire at Notre-Dame destroyed more than just bricks.

Jez Wells and John Potter | Published in History Today Volume 69 Issue 7 July 2019

The sound of silence: ‘Notre-Dame de Paris’, by Alfred Latour, from Modern Woodcuts and Lithographs by British and French Artists,  by Geoffrey Holme, 1919 © Getty Images

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