Curiously devoid of tourists, the Sixth Arrondissement was instead crowded with schoolchildren. Passing them, I walked along the embankment, back and forth across the bridges, with the cranes that now tower above Notre-Dame de Paris serving as my beacon. A pair of British accents broke through the din of French chatter, as two tourists tried to recall exactly when the cathedral had…
Kenzie Burchell
Kenzie Burchell is a professor of journalism at the University of Toronto.