By MICHEL GURFINKIEL, Special to the Sun | April 15, 2019
https://www.nysun.com/foreign/notre-dame-in-flames/90651/
In emotional terms, the fire that destroyed Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris can be described as the 9/11 of France. No matter what the cause may turn out to be. Like New York, which even in periods of war was supposed to be immune from foreign attacks, Paris was supposed to be spared irretrievable catastrophes, either civilian or military.
That ended for New York in 2001. The last time the capital of France suffered wide range destruction was the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 and 1871 and its revolutionary sequel, the Commune of Paris, which scorched the Royal Palace of Tuileries and of City Hall.
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by Raymond Ibrahim
Gatestone Institute
April 14, 2019
https://www.meforum.org/58238/european-churches