“The Cathédrale of Notre-Dame de Paris is doubtless still a sublime and majestic building. But, much beauty as it may retain in its old age, it is not easy to repress a sigh, to restrain our anger, when we mark the countless defacements and mutilations to which men and Time had subjected that venerable monument…” —Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) In the aftermath of last week’s devastating loss at the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, I’m feeling a particular impulse to get down in writing my thoughts and experiences with this monumental piece of Western history and civilization. Since last…