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Images: Notre Dame Cathedral

Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris burned on Monday. Its spire fell. But the French Gothic structure was not fully lost, especially in memories of the beloved national symbol.
A view of Paris through a detail in the stonework of Notre Dame.

Monday's that ravaged Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral, bringing down its spire and roof, struck during Holy Week. But even outside this key period in the Roman Catholicall year, some 12 million of them.

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