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French Senate says Notre-Dame must be restored exactly how it was
The Local France ^ | 28 May 2019

Posted on 05/28/2019 10:01:54 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

On Monday evening, the French Senate approved the government's Notre-Dame restoration bill - but added a clause that it must be restored to the state it was before the blaze, striking a blow to the government which had launched an international architecture competition to debate ideas on the restoration.

The subject of the rebuilding of the cathedral - which was left badly damaged after fire tore through the roof and destroyed the spire on April 15 - has become a fraught battleground between traditionalists who want an exact restoration and others who favour a more imaginative take.

Some of the suggestions have included a rooftop garden, an 'endless spire' of light and a swimming pool on top of the building.

The Senate has now approved the restoration bill already passed by the French parliament to allow work on the structure to be completed in time for the Paris Olympics in 2024 - but requires that the restoration be faithful to the “last known visual state” of the cathedral, in an attempt to check the government, which has launched an international architectural competition soliciting designs for renovation.

Senators also removed a controversial clause from the law which would give the government the power to override regulations on planning, environmental and heritage protection and public tenders. Many members of the Senate, dominated by the right-wing opposition, have been especially critical of President’s Macron’s promise to finish reconstruction within five years.

Another minor modification is the backdating of a proposed tax break for those who have made donations for the cathedral’s reconstruction.


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To: dfwgator

“Some sanity for a change.”

Agree! One of the first things they need to do while planning, in my opinion, is to design the very best security and fire suppression systems.


21 posted on 05/28/2019 10:19:52 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Excellent!! It looked like it would be made a museum that looked like a mosque


22 posted on 05/28/2019 10:22:12 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

23 posted on 05/28/2019 10:27:24 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: rktman

They’d end up with that ridiculous looking POS we got dirtying the skyline in downtown Manhattan.

Amazing how only one builder wanted to replace the towers exactly as they were.

He even had a model he showed to the public.

He is now our Preaident.


24 posted on 05/28/2019 10:28:50 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

So, no minarets?


25 posted on 05/28/2019 10:31:21 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam, not a religion, a totalitarian political ideology aiming for world domination. -Wilders)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Good news!

I’d actually like to see them rebuild it as it was but leave off the spire. The spire was added much later and ruins the clean lines of the original design IMO.


26 posted on 05/28/2019 10:32:31 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I am tired of the secular humanists trying to destroy or undermine anything built to glorify God.

Ignorant fools.

Whether you believe in God or the Christian faith, trying to usurp after the fact, the great things that man has maid to glorify their God, is morally repugnant and ignorant.


27 posted on 05/28/2019 10:34:42 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: billorites

Considering what’s sitting out front of the Louvre, I don’t think that dude wants to go there...


28 posted on 05/28/2019 10:34:42 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Paradox
...but they use fireproof materials.....

let's not forget using fireproof labor (ie, no muslims) to build and maintain it.

29 posted on 05/28/2019 10:34:48 AM PDT by C210N (You can vote your way into Socialism; but, you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege; All
One billion, one millimeter accurate laser points of the cathedral, inside and outside. Corrections, insights welcome.
Precision Laser Scans of Notre Dame Cathedral Can Help to Preserve, Restore, and Rebuild

On the other hand, it is argued that the organ will not sound exactly the same because building acoustics probably won’t be the same as before fire.

Not office friendly. Lower computer volume.

Olivier Latry Final improvisation of the Sunday Mass - Notre Dame de Paris

30 posted on 05/28/2019 10:40:54 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Maybe the learned after that stupid looking glass thing that desecrates the Louvre.


31 posted on 05/28/2019 10:51:35 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Won’t the Muslims just burn it down again?


32 posted on 05/28/2019 10:53:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: C210N

Did they ever have a definitive answer as to what started the fire? I heard a lot of heming and hawing for weeks after. and never heard the final decree.
anyone?


33 posted on 05/28/2019 10:54:30 AM PDT by mistfree (It's a very uncreative man who can't think of more than one way to spell a word.)
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To: rktman

And the requisite fag flag flying from the highest mast


34 posted on 05/28/2019 11:04:11 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: bigbob

The stars and rainbow bars?


35 posted on 05/28/2019 11:05:29 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

First good news about this tragedy...


36 posted on 05/28/2019 11:07:13 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I guess that rules out putting minarets over the altars.


37 posted on 05/28/2019 11:21:58 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: C210N

We have something called sprinkler systems. The building is only about 300 ft high.


38 posted on 05/28/2019 11:35:02 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Isn’t that what restoration means? Thank God!


39 posted on 05/28/2019 11:43:41 AM PDT by kabar
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To: sphinx

Move it to the US for safekeeping?

Remember 9/11/2001?

I forgot — the country already forgot.


40 posted on 05/28/2019 11:59:04 AM PDT by 353FMG
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