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Re: Notre Dame
I thought you meant the school for a moment.
Yep....looks to be a big one. Are the students out doing their weekly riot or anything like that????
Yep....looks to be a big one. Are the students out doing their weekly riot or anything like that????
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Re: Notre Dame
Sky news have just said the French Government will be rebuilding it , I thought it was a Roman Catholic cathedral ,surely they would be responsible for what happens to it .
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Re: Notre Dame
I don't think the Catholic church owns it though.
If they find out the restorers caused it there's going to be a very twitchy insurance company or there
If they find out the restorers caused it there's going to be a very twitchy insurance company or there
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Re: Notre Dame
The French state owns many of the French churches and then allows worship.
That's why most churches in France are free entry.
That's why most churches in France are free entry.
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Re: Notre Dame
Tbh I felt sick watching it, one of Europe’s cutting edge buildings in its time and utterly beautiful. Paris will be stunned into silence tonight.duke63 wrote:Quite upset me seeing the pictures.
850 years old and gone in a few hours.
From what I recall, there were appeals for funds to save it in the last couple of years, given that the Catholic Church is one of the richest organisations in the world I’m surprised they didn’t fund it in house tbh, that said it might be owned by whichever French organisation is the equivalent of the UK National Trust/English Heritage.Jack wrote:Sky news have just said the French Government will be rebuilding it , I thought it was a Roman Catholic cathedral ,surely they would be responsible for what happens to it .
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Re: Notre Dame
I don't mind admitting I was upset watching the scenes. Such a beautiful building. It's seen so much. Heartbreaking.
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Re: Notre Dame
Has it been there 850 years, or just "something" was there & they added/ built up around it??
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Re: Notre Dame
Ahh
Groundbreaking was done around 850 years ago. ....completed @650 years ago, wooden spire added mid-19th century. Approximately.
Groundbreaking was done around 850 years ago. ....completed @650 years ago, wooden spire added mid-19th century. Approximately.
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Re: Notre Dame
Deeply saddening and even if they rebuild, it’s still a heritage lost.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a way of life.
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Re: Notre Dame
It's pretty sad to see billionaires using this as a dick waving contest to see who can donate the most. I presume that the church is insured.
That money could be put to really good use.
That money could be put to really good use.
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Re: Notre Dame
It is a loss of epic proportions and I’d guess if they could turn the clock back they would.kiwikrasher wrote:Deeply saddening and even if they rebuild, it’s still a heritage lost.
Looking of the positive side, it may well provide decades worth of work to those few craftsmen with the skills necessary to rebuild in the manner of the original, also providing a training ground for apprentices for the next generation, thus safeguarding that wealth of knowledge.
Not what anyone wanted I know, but maybe we should look for the positives in a catastrophe like this.
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Re: Notre Dame
I wish I was a billionaire...I'd throw a few mill' the surrender-monkeys' way.
(That last part is a fib).
(That last part is a fib).