Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris

This guide to Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris follows carpenter Patrick Jouenne, who watched the spire collapse on television on April 15, 2019, quit his job the next morning, and was soon leading forty craftsmen rebuilding it with medieval techniques. It reaches back to 1163, when Bishop Maurice de Sully began construction, and to the ninety minutes in 2019 when the fire took the spire before stone vaulting saved the ancient rose windows beneath. Listen for how more than a thousand artisans, and a thousand felled oak trees, answered the call.