Stephanie Life of Determination

  SYNOPSIS In his magnificent, heroic, adventure fantasy, Dragonslayer, Duncan M. Hamilton debuts the first book in a fast-moving trilogy: a dangerous tale of lost magic, unlikely heroes, and reawakened dragons. Once a member of the King's personal guard, Guillot dal Villevauvais spends most days drinking and mourning his wife and child. He’s astonished—and wary—when the Prince Bishop orders him to find and destroy a dragon. He and the Prince Bishop have never exactly been friends and Gill left the capital in disgrace five years ago. So why him? And, more importantly, how is there a dragon to fight when the beasts were hunted to extinction centuries ago by the ancient Chevaliers of the Silver Circle? On the way to the capital city, Gill rescues Solène, a young barmaid, who is about to be burned as a witch. He believes her innocent…but she soon proves that she has plenty of raw, untrained power, a problem in this land, where magic is forbidden. Yet the Prince Bishop beli

                                    I am pretty sure you probably heard about the Cathedral of Notre Dame got on fire. It makes me sad. Yes, they can rebuild it and try to make it look like it did but it won't be the same.  The Cathedral was built between 1163 and 1345 by Pope Alexander the III and was completed in the 13th century.  We lost 856 years of historical energy, labor and all the years of DNA/fingerprints.  The towers may have seemed like they were twins but they were not. The towers were as high as 226 feet and it had 387 steps.  It contained one of the oldest surviving wood-timber frames in Paris. Underneath the cathedral is another city. It is Gallo-Roman city known as Lutetia. Around 1710 pieces of the sculpted altar dedicated to Jupiter were discovered.  In 1431, Henry VI of England was made King of France inside the Notre-Dame.  During the French Revolution, 28 statues of biblical kings in the cathedral were removed by a mob. In 1977, the heads of 21 of the