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Tragic Notre Dame fire may have consumed relics, great works of art

April 15, 2019

As the world watched on Monday afternoon, a large fire broke out at the historic Notre-Dame Cathedral, causing the spire to collapse onto the roof. Laurent Ferri, the curator of the pre-1800 Collections in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University, the former “conservateur du patrimoine” at the French National Archives, says the destruction of religious relics and rare works of art is a loss for all of the world.

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