Spicer: Notre-Dame, the heart of Paris, will regain her glory

For three years two decades ago, I used to cycle to the garden at the back of Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, which is where most of the flames burned this week.
I was alone on a bench with only a stray cat or two. Often I looked up at the magnificent church, sometimes circling out to the front that most tourists see. Idly, I would dream of past centuries, of the hopes and joys and tragedies of this small patch of Paris, back to Roman times – when it was a sanctuary from the dreaded