There was a moment on 15 April 2019 as the flames consuming Notre Dame Cathedral roared into the evening sky when it seemed all would be lost.
Miraculously, firefighters stopped the blaze reaching the bell towers – whose collapse would have almost certainly brought the facade down – and from destroying the bells, the Grand Organ and the Parisian monument’s stained-glass rosette windows.
The bee hives on the roof also survived, along with dozens of treasures including precious artworks, ancient books and
