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NOTRE DAME BURNS! Disaster in Paris! France and the World Mourn!
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As of now through the efforts of 400 firefighters the structure has been saved from total destruction but is still burning. It is the end of an eight-century era!

Who can forget the wonderful scenes of the historic and iconic Notre Dame Cathedral in Ray Bradbury's The Halloween Tree? Here is an image of a Bradbury-owned copy of the original Joseph Mugnaini pen and ink illustration of Pipkin ensconced with a gargoyle.

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Scenes from the Emmy Award Winning 1993 animated feature, as follows:

Moundshroud helps raise the cathedral:



The four trick-or-treaters create the steps:



Pipkin finds himself part of the structure:



The trick-or-treaters escape on gargoyles:



Thanks to fellow fan Robert Gaines, who, thinking along the same lines, uploaded this clip to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24WovZxwxts
 
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And, of course, Ray was deeply influenced by the Lon Chaney movie, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
 
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Ray was also great friends with Charles Laughton, who starred in the 1939 remake, and Ray was born just five days after Maureen O'Hara who played Esmeralda. I have said often that everything in the universe relates to Ray.

Experts estimate it will take 10-15 years to restore and rebuild the cathedral which is fast work if they can do that.
 
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