It was Hugo’s novel, among other works of literature, history and art, that would end up informing her book about Notre Dame, published this October through Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers.īorrus’s “Notre Dame de Paris” is an excellent primer on not just the building itself, but on its place in French culture and society. The fire, as well as the days of mourning and reflection that it provoked, led Borrus to immediately pick up Victor Hugo’s “Notre Dame de Paris” (or “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” in English), and begin to read it for the first time. “When I first heard about the fire I was shocked and horrified,” she says. Kathy Borrus, author of the newly-published book, “Notre Dame de Paris: A Celebration of the Cathedral,” watched the night’s events unfold on television from Washington D.C., where she lives. Tourists and Parisians alike watched helplessly as an orange glow enveloped the structure and firefighters attempted to douse the flames with water from the nearby Seine river. The news of a fire at Notre Dame de Paris on the night of Apsent shockwaves around the world.
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