![]() ![]() It connects us with our past, and we see something like that being destroyed, and we feel as if somebody died." ![]() "Notre-Dame was started in 1163, nearly a 1,000 years ago. "It symbolises our connection with history," Follett told AFP as the world mourned Monday's devastation. ![]() Its story about the construction of a 12th-century cathedral in a fictional English town traces the same era as that in which Notre-Dame assumed its majestic place in the heart of Paris. The author of what may be the world's most popular book about a cathedral told AFP that watching Notre-Dame being eaten up by flames made him feel like someone was dying.īritish writer Ken Follett's 1989 historical novel "The Pillars of the Earth" sold tens of millions of copies and spent 18 weeks atop The New York Times best sellers' list. ![]()
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