Originally penned as a racy romance song about taking an unchaperoned sleigh ride, ‘Jingle Bells’ has become one of the most popular Christmas songs ever. “Nobody embraced Christmas as my ...
Five years after a runaway fire devoured its roof, a renovated Notre-Dame Cathedral reopened its doors, its centuries-old bell ringing in an emotional return of one of the world’s most recognised ...
Its living soul is a character both noble and monstrous, the hunchbacked Quasimodo, who has been deafened by the bells that also serve as his – and the cathedral’s – voice. Hugo’s novel ...