A view of the damaged roof of Notre-Dame-de Paris in the aftermath of a fire that devastated the cathedral, during the visit of French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner (not pictured) in Paris, France, April 16, 2019. Christophe Petit Tesson/Pool via REUTERS
PARIS (Reuters) - For years Notre-Dame cathedral was caught in a dispute between the city's archdiocese and the French state over who should pay for repairs to its crumbling gargoyles, collapsed balustrades and weather-eroded Gothic facades.
Awaiting funds, Church officials used plastic pipes to drain water from one of the world's most admired landmarks and created a "stone cemetery" from the fallen masonry.
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