Bill Whitaker reports on how French engineers are rebuilding the spire of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral after the devastating 2019 fire — and what Victor Hugo has to do with it.
"Victor Hugo is the reason why she's still standing," French journalist Agnes Poirier told 60 Minutes. ," Hugo wrote that,"A building has two things: its use and its beauty. Its use belongs to its owner, its beauty to everyone; to destroy it is to overstep one's rights."
By 1842, the French government decided to restore the cathedral and hired a young architect named Eugène Viollet-le-Duc to help. During his architectural education, Viollet-le-Duc travelled around France, making detailed drawings of the medieval monuments and cathedrals he saw. When he built the new spire at Notre Dame in 1859, it looked as though it had been original to the cathedral.
Once the reconstruction is complete, the 16 statues will again take their place climbing up the side of the spire.
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