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Hard to believe they saved anything looking at that latest picture. It’s surely all gone?
Tragic.
I wasn’t going to visit when I went to Paris but we had walked across the entire city to get to the Louvre only to find out it was the only day of the week it’s closed. So we went to Notre Dame instead as it was close by.
People will say rebuild it, but you can’t rebuild history. To put it into perspective, building work started 300 years before Columbus discovered your country. You can’t replicate that.
We live in a time that an empty room or a blank canvas can be considered art.Even if it can be rebuilt, it'll never have the same character. So sad.
"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness"
- Keats, Endymion
FWIW, my twitter feed is suggesting that the most priceless relics and art works seem to have been saved.
With such extensive damage, will they even be able to tell whether this was accidental or intentional?
NBC is reporting that they have already determined that it was not arson or terrorist related. So perhaps they already know that there was an accident with the reconstruction.
400 firefighters worked on the fire & they are saying that the priceless stained glass windows were saved.