Notre Dame is Amazing After the Restoration and Repair

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The church of Notre Dame has been repaired after a fire in 2019. It has also been cleaned and restored. The art and murals inside had not been touched since 1850. The restoration has restored vibrant colors.

There was a proposed architectural plan to alter Notre Dame. The plan to change Notre Dame was not chosen.

9 thoughts on “Notre Dame is Amazing After the Restoration and Repair”

  1. Fantastic. I saw that cathedral for the first time when my parents took me to Europe for the first time. I was 9yrs old in 1970. (I went back, on my own, when I could) It was as a child saw it, magnificent. Yes, much of the walls inside were blackened by smoke, by 800 years of candles, (and for 100 years at least, cigarettes) What the people who rebuilt the building, they are amazing. As a person who would love to see what it looked like before1 the smoke, before the crap and garbage? If I live long enough, I’d love to see it. Will I live long enough? I doubt it. But, I can always hope.

    Great job France!!

    • Ok, a reply to “me”, but I need to expand on what I said. I find it “uninformed” that ancient humans were not very smart. We’re “amazed” at ancient peoples who had insight, even technology, that boggles our mind. We KNOW how they built the great cathedrals of Europe. Moving stones the size of SUV’s, and bigger. Know how we know? The Catholic church was very anal in keeping records and how and why they spent money. Because “the church” was so good at keeping records which they were very good at, when money was spent, guess what?

      The architectural and engineering details of “how, when, how, and, why, are well understood. what circumstances” WE have amazing documentation. S***, I think it would stand up in any Western court today. My point? It has little to do with when the great cathedrals were built, most (people) in Europe were cold, hungry, and perpetuity frightened. Yet, a certain number did amazing things.

      When people think any “so called primitive peoples” can’t do something amazing, or have “insight” we don’t think they “could have”? That’s an insult to our ancestors, and an excuse to say “It must have been those damn aliens, because we’re to lazy to figure out how our ancestors did things, we no longer understand” I don’t dismiss aliens, I just don’t just find it as a rational explanation of everything, we can’t easily explain.

    • This particular case, though, was an accident during repairing the roof, compounded by the failure to install a fire suppression system inside the roof.

      • Per wiki, “The fire, which investigators believe was started by a cigarette or an electrical short circuit, destroyed the cathedral’s wooden spire (flèche) and most of the wooden roof and severely damaged the cathedral’s upper walls.”

        My suspicion is the official cause is nebulous, and may have been arson, like many other church fires. Afterall, these churches have stood for about 1000 years through the dark ages and the use of candles.

        هل تعرف ما يسمونه برجر الجبن 114 جراما في باريس؟

        Nevertheless, the fact that they sourced oak trees from all over France to rebuild the roof is quite a nice and inspiring story.

    • Yeah, plenty of churches to burn that aren’t as known as Notre Dame.

      And that are left destroyed given they have no such notoriety and following, and nearly nobody clamoring for their reparation.

  4. The people involved in the restoration did a good job. They were not a bunch of post-modern hacks that many of us feared they would be.

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