Get to Know the Iconic Notre Dame Cathedral

Monday's massive fire was merely a blip in Notre Dame's incredible centuries-long history.

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00:00Our Lady of Paris is our history, our literature, our imagination, the place where we have experienced

00:19all our great moments, our epidemics, our wars, our liberations.

00:24It is the epicenter of our life.

00:30It is a landmark, a refuge in the history of France.

00:58Notre-Dame-de-Paris is where we have gathered, in the joys, the sorrows and the tragedies of our history.

01:28Notre-Dame-de-Paris is where we have gathered, in the joys, the sorrows and the tragedies of our history.

01:58Notre-Dame-de-Paris is a very dark subject, but it contains a lot of emotions.

02:28Notre-Dame-de-Paris is a very dark subject, but it contains a lot of emotions.

02:48We will rebuild Notre-Dame-de-Paris, because this is what the French are waiting for,

02:54because this is what our history deserves, because this is our profound destiny.