Notre Dame Cathedral

Notre Dame Cathedral burning
Warning: obnoxious autoplay video

I heard about the fire, and I got to wondering if I had posted anything about this cathedral before. I did:

The Wolves of Paris were a man-eating wolf pack that killed forty people in Paris in 1450. The animals entered the city during the winter through breaches in its walls. A wolf named Courtaud, or "Bobtail", was the leader of the pack. Reports of the animal suggested it was reddish in color. Eventually, the wolves were killed when Parisians, furious at the deaths, lured Courtaud and his pack into the heart of the city. There the Parisians stoned and speared the wolves to death in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral. 

This was 200 years after the cathedral was finished. Those were different times.

P.S. I originally got the quote from Wikipedia, but that article has vanished. The new link is not quite so sure that this is a true tale.