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Notre-Dame de Paris, 2015

William Flesch

Most evenings Iโ€™d meet Daniel right in frontOf City Hall, to walk home for our mealOn Rue Domat, just westward of Rue Dante.Weโ€™d stroll across the bridges, always steal...

Notre-Dame de Paris, by Gรฉrard de Nerval (1808โ€“1855)

William Flesch

Notre Dame is quite old: one will see it perhapsStill bury that Paris it saw at its birth;But in a few thousand years Time will cause to collapse(As wolves...