Excellent news!
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The tweet is about Notre Dame. It uses photos of the destruction of Reims cathedral during the First World War to tell a completely false story that Notre Dame was destroyed during the Second World War. The tweet says:
Nazis bombed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris & left it in ruins during WW2 and it survived & was rebuilt.
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Scaffolding around the north tower caught fire, spreading the blaze to all parts of the timber frame superstructure. The lead in the roofing melted and poured through the stone gargoyles, destroying in turn the bishop’s palace.
Man, that must have been a sight.
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Apparently the construction is different to many of the cathedrals I’ve been in, where the spire is more directly connected to the construction of the crossing. Wikipedia tells me this is more of a feature of English Gothic, so that makes sense.
Notre Dame or not, I wonder if that was the inspiration for the climactic scene in the Disney movie where Quasimodo defends the building by channeling molten lead out the drain spouts (disclaimer: I never read the Victor Hugo novel so I’m not sure if that was in the source material).
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OMG, according to that, one of the rose windows survived!!!
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After many centuries of Christian worship, during the Revolution Notre Dame was for a while a Temple of Reason
and then was the site of Napoleon’s coronation (Napoleon restored the Catholic church in France to some of its pre-Revolution status)
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Rebuilding will be a given.
In perspective, pretty much every major cultural/historical site in Japan has burned down at least once in its 2,500 years of history only to be rebuilt years later.
Yes I am overly optimistic. If I wasn’t I would be in tears right now.
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At least one temple has a deeply philosophical take on that process:
They have no confusion about Theseus ship.
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Oooh I’ve been there!
90 degrees in September, no shade to speak of. Nearest vendors for water nearly a mile walk away. Grueling experience. Wonderful little site
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And no sprinkler systems.
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WTF? How do you get two historic religious buildings burning at the same time like that?
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All of human creation is ephemera in the endless march of time.
This too shall pass.
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If Notre Dame is anything like Oxford University regarding long term planning they will own a forest, should wood be needed for repairs.
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I they’d only remembered to sweep up the twigs.
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I’m kinda amazed a heritage site doesn’t have a fire suppression system. This thing is like 400 years old right?
Construction started about 850 years ago.
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I know there have been several film adaptations but Disney still excels at visual spectacle.
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