Posted on 03/10/2023 6:48:06 PM PST by marshmallow
Paris, France, Mar 7, 2023 / 14:00 pm Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, whose spire and roof were destroyed by an April 15, 2019, fire, is expected be rebuilt within the five-year deadline set by the French government.
As confirmed by the head of the construction site, French Army Gen. Jean-Louis Georgelin, in an interview with the Associated Press, the faithful and tourists should have access to the site again by the end of 2024.
Reconstruction work only began some 24 months after the tragic incident occurred, with the first phase consisting of cleaning and securing the site, involving more than 200 different companies.
Although the beloved cathedral will not be ready for the Olympic Games to be held in the French capital in July and August 2024, it should have regained its former shape by then, with the reconstruction phase of its emblematic spire to begin in April.
Before the end of the year, therefore, it should reappear in the Parisian sky as it was originally designed by the architect Eugène Viollet-le-duc in the 19th century, contrary to the initial wish of French President Emmanuel Macron, who had called for a “contemporary architectural gesture” in the restoration of the spire.
In a Dec. 1, 2022, communiqué issued by the Public Establishment in Charge of the Conservation and Restoration of the Cathedral, Georgelin had already announced “major advances” in the progress of the project.
“The completion of the reconstruction of the first of the collapsed vaults marks an important step, while the interiors are already regaining their beauty,” he said.
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Great news.
Excellent comparison. Neither France nor America seems to truly ‘get it,’ though. Do you agree?
For the next muslims to set it on fire again.
Or drive trucks into it
“As of September [2019?], determining the exact place in which the fire started was expected to take a great deal more time and work.[121] By 15 April 2020, investigators believed “the fire to have been started by either a cigarette or a short circuit in the electrical system.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_fire
Looks to me that the investigation never came to any actual conclusions, but stalled long enough that enough people forgot that there never was a final determination of the cause.
The Muzloid apes who did it got away with their crime against humanity.
Like negroes and DC democrats, Muzloid apes are now afforded special status to commit crimes.
I suppose then they aren't going to add a mini-roller coaster on the roof or replace all the gargoyles with Trump's head either.
I’m very glad I was able to visit Notre Dame in 2008. It was spectacular, and I’m also glad that the traditionalists won out and that it’s being restored as closely as possible to how it was, without any of the modern architectural assaults that Macron wanted to foist upon it. Given the current state of the world, had this project begun a year or two later it is a virtual certainty that there would have been pressure to replace the windows with rainbow patterned stained glass, and to make every statue transgender, among other insanity.
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