Hello everyone. You're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. This is a show brought to you by the

audiobooks from French today. More on them at the end of the episode. But it's not all fun and games

around here at the Earful Tower. Sometimes we tackle some serious stuff and that's what's happening

this week. You may have remembered in April 15th, of course you remember this, April 15th, 2019, the Notre Dame

Cathedral burned and it didn't burn to the ground, but it turns out it wasn't far from it.

Now, it's been seven months since that tragedy and funnily enough, there are almost more

questions now than there were at the time.

Now that the dust has settled, I thought I'd sort of dig a little deeper and figure out where we are

and what's going to happen next.

So I paid a visit to the mayor of the 4th Aeron Desmond of Paris, the district where the Notre Dame

Cathedral is, and I sat down with Ariel Veil to talk about the

Notre Dame but while I was in the office with him we had a chat about where he was exactly what

he was doing as the fire was raging and I mean it's a pretty fascinating experience from his

perspective alone you're going to hear about it but he was in some pretty exclusive company at the time of the fire. But also, we talk about what's coming up next. Where are we going to go for the Notre Dame? Are we going to be able to visit it soon? Or is that way further off in the timeline? You guys probably won't be too excited about the answers. But that's what you're in for today, a talk about the Notre Dame Cathedral. I hope you

enjoy it. I'll be around at the end of the episode to talk about French today and to read out some emails from you listeners.

Let's get into it.

Monsieur Lemaire, Ariel Veil. My pronunciation has improved since last time we met, I think.

I went back and watched the video, our last video from 10 months ago, where incidentally, I don't know if you remember, we were standing out the front of the Notre Dame talking about it, and then just months later, everything changed.

My God, I just realized that the first

time that we went around it was it was still there up there yep i watched it this morning there's a

section where you and i are standing at the back of it and we're talking about the complicated

architecture and in fact you were talking about how there's a lot of scaffolding and there's a lot

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