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Colman enters the cathedral in the coronation scene masquerading as King Rudolf and is confronted by the king's brother, Duke Michael.
Upper Merion is not on the Main Line, we did not go to school in a Gothic cathedral.
I think the film has great atmosphere, with its contrasting seediness of the gangsters and the magnificence of the cathedral and its music.
At the end, we learn that Nikolai was persecuted to make room not for the mayor's palace, but for a cathedral.
Police fired tear gas into the compound, standing by as those outside the cathedral launched petrol bombs, hurled rocks, and shot at those inside.
They repeated ad nauseam that the cathedral was constructed as a monument to the victory over Napoleon, the 200th anniversary of which is being commemorated this year.
In 1994, three years after the Soviet Union’s collapse, reconstruction of the cathedral began.
I know that there are too many populists on the left (notably the bitter Mélenchon) and on the right (the pathetic Nicolas Dupont-Aignan skittering away from the cameras Friday night after leaving the cathedral in Reims, where France’s kings were crowned), who, under a fig leaf of scorn for finance, betray the true spirit of France.
But the fact that the system worked for almost everyone was the final buttress holding up the cathedral.
In fact, what is presented as a shimmering cathedral often more closely resembles a hastily erected shantytown.
Consider the protests that erupted in May in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth most populous city, over government plans to build a new Orthodox cathedral in one of the city’s few remaining green areas.
Victor Hugo’s immortalization of the cathedral in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, of course, comes to mind.
The cathedral itself has borne witness to centuries of French history, including episodes that are now the stuff of legend.
No one died, and the cathedral is a symbol of Catholicism – a creed with positive connotations for some, and quite the opposite for others.
This sense of community was evident this year in the aftermath of large-scale disasters, including Cyclone Idai in southern Africa and the fire at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, as it was following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.
PRINCETON – Just a little more than 24 hours after the fire that seriously damaged Notre-Dame de Paris, donations to rebuild the 850-year-old cathedral had passed €1 billion ($1.1 billion).
An obvious reason to restore the cathedral is the enjoyment it brings, as an aesthetic and cultural monument, to the 12 million people who visit it each year.
Suppose the cathedral were left in ruins because those who have offered millions collectively had a change of heart and decided to give the money to those in poverty.
The Emotion of Notre DamePARIS – People were chanting, praying, and crying, or just frozen in total disbelief, as the flames engulfed “their” cathedral of Notre Dame, the object of their individual and collective memory.
The fire also prompted an immediate rush of generous financial contributions to help rebuild the cathedral, not only from France, where hundreds of millions of euros were pledged in just one day, but from across the globe.
In America in particular, wealthy donors were quick to support the cathedral that had rung its bells in grief for the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
If our collective duty as human beings is to repair and improve our surroundings as much as we can in our very short time on this planet, then the fate of the cathedral is a natural priority.
But as a Parisian, a Frenchman, and a European, not to mention a citizen of the world, I was seized by a profound sense of impending loss when the fire began, as experts feared that the entire cathedral could collapse.
A generation later, the French literary giant Victor Hugo immortalized the cathedral in his novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which was later made into successful films and a musical.
Then the noblemen gaily scrambled for their overcoats and all drove to the cathedral.
In the cathedral Levin, with the others, raised his hand, repeating the words of the priest, and swore by the most awful oaths to fulfil all the things the Governor had hoped for.
His arms moved slowly, piling up the stages, preparing the immense cathedral of the future world.
She repeated it in a low voice, for the mere pleasure of it; it rang in her ears like a great cathedral bell; it shone before her eyes, even on the labels of her pomade-pots.
And they parted before the Saint-Herbland Passage just as the clock in the cathedral struck half-past eleven.
"Will you—" She seemed to reflect; then abruptly, "To-morrow at eleven o'clock in the cathedral."
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