Notre-Dame ...

[Ducans]

I totally agree but we've a President who wants to all oversee : he demerits well his surname "JUPITER" !
Mainly, I suspect that he wants that N-D could be restored on 2014 to inaugurate in the same time the N-D'restoration and the Olympics Games and so, to let a "great" image of himself for the future ! "JUPITER" !

...on 2024 I think...

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

According to the cathedral organist, there was a Mass in progress and he was playing when the fire alarm sounded.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-47954442/i-was-playing-at-mass-when-the-fire-broke

I understand that the great organ has escaped any serious damage, which if true is another blessing,
it is one of the finest in the world.

You mean like this?

 

[thehangingtree]

It took more than 10 years to replace the twin towers in New York (the original towers were built far more quickly)...

I'm not sure they can restore the cathedral by the 2024 Olympics but I suspect a realistic roof and spire will be there.

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

It took more than 10 years to replace the twin towers in New York (the original towers were built far more quickly)...

I'm not sure they can restore the cathedral by the 2024 Olympics but I suspect a realistic roof and spire will be there.

A temporary Lego structure should be possible.

 

[Eulalia]

You mean like this?

Yes, except that's Oliver Latry playing, Johann Vexo's colleague -
I think they have 3 organists, and 3 organs. The small Choir Organ
has a very different sound, more my style - I hope that one has survived too

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

Yes, except that's Oliver Latry playing, Johann Vexo's colleague -
I think they have 3 organists, and 3 organs. The small Choir Organ
has a very different sound, more my style - I hope that one has survived too

Sorry I booked the wrong organist - I was working on short notice!

 

[Barbaria1]

What does a cathedral organist do? Is this sexual???

Tree has never been in a church??

 

[Eulalia]

He was an altar boy. Never got over it ...

 

[Barbaria1]

He was an altar boy. Never got over it ...

Something surely “altared” his brain ... probably too much Seagrams

 

[Frank Petrexa]

"Le vent d'Amerique"? En Honeur:

 

[Apostate]

I generally treat Fox News like plutonium and stay the hell away from it, but while looking up their take on the Mueller report I ran across this item.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/fdny-spirit-run-french-flags-firefighters-notre-dame-fire

Vive la France, mes amis.

 

[Eulalia]

They were very brave, and very skillful, managing in very dangerous and difficult conditions
to work out how to contain the fire and bring it under control in what seems
from what we know now to be a miraculously limited space and time.

 

[thehangingtree]

A temporary Lego structure should be possible.
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Oh, you are as sick as I am... I thought this earlier today and said 'No, don't do this...'

 

[Apostate]

Oh, you are as sick as I am... I thought this earlier today and said 'No, don't do this...'

And you were right.

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

And you were right.

Only temporary - and Legos are very structurally sound!

 

[thehangingtree]

Only temporary - and Legos are very structurally sound!

add Super-Glue and they never come apart... but still burn.

Next time rehabing a cathedral do look for the union label...

 

[hammers]

Thomas S. Eliot's poetic drama on the final days of Archbishop Becket (1170), recently quoted on this Forum,brings to memory that the events (1170) were brought to screen in 1964 movie "BECKET", whose screenplay- though inspired by Eliot's drama-was based on the theatrical pièce 'Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu' (1959) by Jean Anouilh. The movie is a sumptuous reconstruction of times and places, acted in masterly manner. It is worth seeing for anyone who, thus far, has not.

 

[Fox-on-Cross]

5000 oaks were used for the roof, so many do not exist in the whole World!

 

[Loxuru]

The theory is coming up of an electrical short circuit, in one of the lifts of the construction company.

Meanwhile there is another uncertainty : how (un)stable did the huge scaffold come out of the fire? Some job to climb on in and verify the damage!

 

[old slave]

Meanwhile, some English landowners are promising oak, including one who says "These oaks were good enough to build HMS Victory and beat the Frenchies, this will make amends."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Millionaire-aristocrat-72-pledges-send-50-oak-trees-help...


https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2019/.../lincolnshire-estates-donate-oak-for-notre-dame-rep...