Posted on 11/29/2024 4:58:55 AM PST by C19fan
French President Emmanuel Macron inspected the newly renovated Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris today, and declared: ‘She’s Back!’.
Five years after a devastating fire threatened to destroy the ancient place of worship, it is set to reopen to the public next week.
Hailing a restoration costing at least £600million on Friday, Mr Macron walked around Notre Dame with his wife, Brigitte Macron, and said ‘The nightmare is over.’
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Just wonderful...
Amen to that!
BTTT
Shocking.
[Hailing a restoration costing at least £600million on Friday]
And because of what, ONE Muslim?
Hey, Daily Mail, it’s a CATHEDRAL.
Our lady is quite beautiful, good job France. My son said it is only open for mass and the tours will not begin until summer.
>> My son said it is only open for mass and the tours will not begin until summer.
GREAT news! I was praying they’d restore it as a CHURCH and not as a museum/tourist attraction.
Where are the minarets? :-)
Thankfully, sanity prevailed and the roof has been restored to its original state, using the same design, materials, and construction techniques as the original. Not that there’s much chance I’ll ever visit that “migrant”-infested dump to see it again.
“Mr Macron walked around Notre Dame with his wife, Brigitte Macron, and said ‘The nightmare is over.’”
I think not, Macaroon. Have many 6th century immigrants have you let swarm into your country in the last 5 years? How many churches have been burnt in France compared to the number of mosques? Why do you think Notre Dame will not be the target of another “welcome guest”?
Uh, au contraire, Pierre.
Sterile and overlit. Parquet floor is meant to convey "cheap secular museum". Bardet is an Italian school exterminator -- where are the side altars that made the place a labyrinth joy to explore?
Maybe we should start a betting pool on long it is before some other hoodlum of Mad Moe’s Mafia burns it down again?
No...the nightmare isn’t over. Has France kicked out the muslims as yet?
I am surprised at the amount of light and the light color of the stone. My immediate supposition is that this is the result of cleaning away a thousand years of grit, grime and smoke residue. Given the length of time it took to build, Notre Dame may look better — cleaner and more light filled — than at any time in its history. I suppose Paris’ air pollution will darken it again over time.
The original lighting would have been entirely lamps and candles. Were any electric lighting systems ever installed? How about now?
exactly ... plus the renovation repaired, cleaned and spit-polished hundreds of years of serious maintenance neglect ... basically, it’s like the cathedral is better than brand new ... AND modern fire alarm, comm and security systems were installed ... the result is truly a modern miracle!
I saw that and thankfully I did a google search to see that was a proposed version (much like my sarcastic version with the mini-roller coaster on the roof and bungee jumping from the towers). The real new spire was very like the second one which was destroyed in the fire. I didn’t check enough pictures to see how exact it was. The original spire was taken down in the late 1700s due to rotting and partial collapse.
Yup....that’s the “green” version they rejected.
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