BREAKING: Paris landmark, Notre Dame Cathedral, is on fire!
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This is the first look inside Notre-Dame cathedral after a fire destroyed much of its iconic exterior [Tap to expand] http://bbc.in/2UFEOV5
Footage from the Reuters archive shows Notre-Dame through the ages, as Parisians mourn the devastation of the cathedral after a fire on Monday. https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1118131928568406018
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If you have been to Notre Dame as i'm sure you have, was a great exhibition where is charts the changes over the decades and never really stays the same anyway.
EDIT - Seems like all 3 Rose windows have survived, yay!
Exactly, the edifice of most of the major Cathedrals are constantly evolving beasts. The buildings are older than the lifetimes of humans so they reflect those changing fashions each generation.
Do you really think they'd tell the public if it was?
Yes
After all the crap that has been kicking off in Paris recently? Finding out it was deliberately started would cause mayhem.
Not as much mayhem as when your proposed coverup inevitably gets leaked or otherwise uncovered.
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Here's the google maps link which you can get a 3D rotatable experience with, in case it's not been linked already.
https://www.google.com/maps/@48.852...1t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m3!15m2!1m1!1s/g/11h6rqxjqb
Never been from what I can remember since it was years ago I went to Paris so the google maps version will have to count as ticking off my bucket list for now.
https://www.google.com/maps/@48.852...1t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m3!15m2!1m1!1s/g/11h6rqxjqb
Never been from what I can remember since it was years ago I went to Paris so the google maps version will have to count as ticking off my bucket list for now.
Why the hell would you give a £5 million contract to restore something of such importance, to a small company run by a 32 year old with limited experience of working on such a monument? Surely you would want a more major firm involved, run by someone with far more experience. Its not like we're talking about fixing up grandmas shed.
Corruption?
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No idea.. I mean I know its a firm that's got history of working on some historical buildings, but that's in the companys past, when it was run by the former company heads. I know its run by a family but even so..if I was renovating something of such importance theres no way I would put it in the hands of someone just over 30 years of age. I understand that is pretty ageist of me, but some things imo, need an older head overseeing it.
Not putting the blame squarely at the firm involved, it may have still happened with anyone else, I'm just surprised that a national (global even?) monument would be put in the hands of someone so young.
They quite possibly do. Not sure what that has to do with any tax relief on a donation to help rebuild the Cathedral?
About that money....
Translation of the french bit:
"I urge Parliament to vote urgently a special provision opening a tax cut of 90% on the donations that will be made in favour of the Grand restoration site of Notre-Dame "
His Wiki background:
Jean-Jacques, Claude, Aillagon, born on October 2 , 1946in Metz , is a leader of cultural institutions, former Minister of Culture and Communication of the governments of Jean-Pierre Raffarin , under the presidency of Jacques Chirac .
Since 2011, Jean-Jacques Aillagon has been François Pinault's advisor in his artistic and cultural activities. He previously headed the Palazzo Grassi in Venice , where François Pinault's collection of contemporary art is presented .