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All three of Notre Dame's Rose Windows SURVIVED blaze, Archbishop of Paris says, [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 16, 2019 | Peter Allen and Alexander Robertson

Posted on 04/16/2019 5:45:20 AM PDT by C19fan

Notre Dame's three medieval stained-glass windows all survived last night's devastating fire, the Archbishop of Paris has said, as detectives probe the renovation work which may have led to the blaze.

The first daylight pictures inside the wreckage of the Paris landmark today showed the roof destroyed, the 850-year-old church exposed to the elements and the floor covered in charred debris.

However the three 'irreplaceable' Rose Windows, which date to the 13th century and were last night feared to have melted or exploded, are all still believed to be intact.

Attention has now turned to what may have caused Notre Dame, part of which was being restored in a €150million refurbishment, to fall victim to such a disaster.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Religion
KEYWORDS: didyousearch; france; koranimals; notre; notredame; paris
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1 posted on 04/16/2019 5:45:20 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Wow, surprising and good news.


2 posted on 04/16/2019 5:47:33 AM PDT by simpson96
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The North Rose Window ... there's a higher-resolution picture available at Wikipedia, if you want to see the detailed scenes


3 posted on 04/16/2019 5:53:04 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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Interesting trivia

The old glass of Notre Dame is thicker on the bottom than on the top because of the liquid properties of glass with the atoms moving so slowly...


4 posted on 04/16/2019 6:01:37 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: canuck_conservative

I was there in the nineties. It was magnificent cathedral.


5 posted on 04/16/2019 6:04:12 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Chickensoup

Glass is basically a really thick liquid.

So in a way, the windows are “bubbles”. In theory, left long enough, a window would break as the glass settles on the bottom of the pain.


6 posted on 04/16/2019 6:05:16 AM PDT by redgolum
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I wish I could see pictures of them now, rather than take someone’s word for it that they survived.

Glad so many of the relics survived and that the inside looks like it may even be able to be restored somehow. From those overhead shots yesterday it looked like a complete loss.


7 posted on 04/16/2019 6:10:09 AM PDT by Pravious
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Looking forward to the restoration. I wonder if they will hire the brilliant guys who did the recent renovation? /s


8 posted on 04/16/2019 6:13:47 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
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9 posted on 04/16/2019 6:20:21 AM PDT by gaijin
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What caused the fire? Let’s just say the French would not be able to handle an inconvenient truth. The public will never learn the real cause if it is not consistent with the ongoing politically correct narrative.


10 posted on 04/16/2019 6:26:30 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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What caused the fire you asked.

I noticed that the news of the woman was trying to bomb Notre Dame cathedral in 2016 and was sentenced to eight years in prison on Friday has disappeared from the news.

The two co-conspirators have not yet been sentenced as I understand it.


11 posted on 04/16/2019 6:28:39 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: allendale

All three women are Muslims.


12 posted on 04/16/2019 6:30:06 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: gaijin

Caption This.


13 posted on 04/16/2019 6:34:59 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Even if French investigators found that one of the construction workers was an ardent, deranged, radical Islamist, admitted that he set an incendiary device, had the materials in his home, confessed and wanted recognition as the jihadist who destroyed Notre Dame, the French would cover up the very inconvenient truth. It would not go well with the prevailing politically correct narrative.

When you commit cultural suicide, the icons of your civilization tend to disappear.


14 posted on 04/16/2019 6:36:54 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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It’s even being denied here in the good old USA.


15 posted on 04/16/2019 6:53:47 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Pravious

I have seen pictures from after the fire, and the window shown above IS intact. The others are more difficult to asses, Their frames are intact, the glass in several appears to be gone.
The NYPost had some pictures taken after the fire was extinguished.


16 posted on 04/16/2019 6:55:38 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: redgolum

redgolum wrote:Glass is basically a really thick liquid.
So in a way, the windows are “bubbles”. In theory, left long enough, a window would break as the glass settles on the bottom of the pain.

Gee !I guess that glass was really hurting ! I hope it gets better.


17 posted on 04/16/2019 6:55:46 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting here for the record)
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To: C19fan

bump


18 posted on 04/16/2019 7:01:41 AM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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We know with absolute certainty that is was not islamic terrorists.

/sarc


19 posted on 04/16/2019 7:05:11 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: gaijin

What I wouldn’t give to have be there with a lead pipe!


20 posted on 04/16/2019 7:10:22 AM PDT by bantam
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