Two days after Notre Dame burned, I flew to Paris to appear on the TV programme
La Grande Librairie for a discussion about cathedrals. The following morning I
had breakfast at the Hotel Bristol with my French publisher and she asked me to
write a short book about Notre Dame and what it means to all of us. She said she
would donate the publisher's profits to the rebuilding fund and, if I wished, I
could do the same with my royalties. Yes, I said