Notre-Dame ...

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some painting about Notre-Dame

 

[Eulalia]

I love this one, such a lot of life in it!
Eugene Galien Laloue is new to me, I see he specialised in street-scenes of Paris
he brings the city as it was in the late 19th - early 20th centuries to vivid life.

 

[Eulalia]

I omitted to mention yesterday, and nobody else remembered -
the Sunday after Easter used to be known as Quasimodo Sunday,
on account of the Introit at Mass, 'Quasimodo geniti infantes
rationabiles, sine dolo, lac concupiscite',
'Just like new-born babies, being reasonable and without guile,
desire milk', alluding to Ep. Peter 2:1, 'Like new-born infants,
long for the pure, spiritual milk'

In Victor Hugos' story, it's on Quasimodo Sunday that Frollo, the Archdeacon,
finds the hunchback baby abandoned at Notre Dame,
adopts and baptises him with that name - but the connotations of
innocence, lack of guile, are surely relevant to the symbolism of the name too.

 

[foggybottom]

Notre Dame ""could collapse completely" if winds in Paris reach 55mph after devastating blaze, engineers warn. Latest story from Daily Mail.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-claims.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ico=taboola_feed

 

[foggybottom]

**French Government Forces Traditional Rebuild of Notre Dame**

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/20...ent-forces-traditional-rebuild-of-notre-dame/

 

[messaline]

Coming from : https://www.breitbart.com/europe/20...ent-forces-traditional-rebuild-of-notre-dame/

...The French Senate has voted to reject the plans for rebuilding Notre Dame cathedral in Paris put forward by the French executive including President Emmanuel Macron who wanted an “inventive reconstruction”, mandating that the work must be traditional...

I totally agree with our Senate : Notre-Dame is Notre-Dame and does stay Notre-Dame ! ... like all the old monuments who deserve a minimum of respect ...
But, our president takes more and more himself like a King : we cut the head of our last King in 1793 ...

 

[Eulalia]

Notre Dame ""could collapse completely" if winds in Paris reach 55mph after devastating blaze, engineers warn. Latest story from Daily Mail.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-claims.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ico=taboola_feed

That was the danger with Glasgow Art School - at first light, the walls seemed quite intact,
but it soon became apparent they could collapse without warning at any moment!
The damage to ND is mercifully much less, and the butressed walls stronger,
but there will surely need to be major engineering works, hopefully mostly invisible,
before the roof and other visible damage can be repaired.

 

[foggybottom]

That was the danger with Glasgow Art School - at first light, the walls seemed quite intact,
but it soon became apparent they could collapse without warning at any moment!
The damage to ND is mercifully much less, and the butressed walls stronger,
but there will surely need to be major engineering works, hopefully mostly invisible,
before the roof and other visible damage can be repaired.

True the buttressed walls are stronger but they also rely on an outward pressure from the roof and internal structures to keep all the forces in equilibrium, and a lot of that is gone. I also agree that any reconstruction should blend in and use the same methods as originally applied. This structure is an absolute engineering marvel and imho the artists who built it were geniuses. Of course they were able to concentrate on their work without any annoying distractions such as TV, video games and that awful mind destroying internet.

 

[hammers]

Could anyone please supply information,if any, on the outcome of the investigations tending to individuate the causes of the arson?
To my knowledge, 45 days after the facts ,no information on the topic was given by the media this end.
Was this topic recently treated in this Forum or did I miss something for disattention? Thanks in advance

 

[Gibbs505]

Coming from : https://www.breitbart.com/europe/20...ent-forces-traditional-rebuild-of-notre-dame/

...The French Senate has voted to reject the plans for rebuilding Notre Dame cathedral in Paris put forward by the French executive including President Emmanuel Macron who wanted an “inventive reconstruction”, mandating that the work must be traditional...

I totally agree with our Senate : Notre-Dame is Notre-Dame and does stay Notre-Dame ! ... like all the old monuments who deserve a minimum of respect ...
But, our president takes more and more himself like a King : we cut the head of our last King in 1793 ...

Don't you love it when the 'experts' get their tails twisted. Oh how they howl!

 

[Eulalia]

Could anyone please supply information,if any, on the outcome of the investigations tending to individuate the causes of the arson?
To my knowledge, 45 days after the facts ,no information on the topic was given by the media this end.
Was this topic recently treated in this Forum or did I miss something for disattention? Thanks in advance

As I understand it, the investigation is continuing, but some electrical fault in the temporary elevator
being used by the workers engaged in restoration work, and/or inflammable material stored overnight
by those workers, are the lines being followed.

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

Coming from : https://www.breitbart.com/europe/20...ent-forces-traditional-rebuild-of-notre-dame/

...The French Senate has voted to reject the plans for rebuilding Notre Dame cathedral in Paris put forward by the French executive including President Emmanuel Macron who wanted an “inventive reconstruction”, kmandating that the work must be traditional...

I totally agree with our Senate : Notre-Dame is Notre-Dame and does stay Notre-Dame ! ... like all the old monuments who deserve a minimum of respect ...
But, our president takes more and more himself like a King : we cut the head of our last King in 1793 ...

Don't you think a glass vagina on top instead of the steeple would be more respectful of Our Lady and and less male-centric than just a pointed phallic symbol? Come on Messa, move with the times!

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

I love this one, such a lot of life in it!
Eugene Galien Laloue is new to me, I see he specialised in street-scenes of Paris
he brings the city as it was in the late 19th - early 20th centuries to vivid life.

I cannot open the thumbnail

 

[Eulalia]

Don't you think a glass vagina on top instead of the steeple would be more respectful of Our Lady and and less male-centric than just a pointed phallic symbol? Come on Messa, move with the times!

Perhaps something like this?

I cannot open the thumbnail

No, you have to go back to the post I'm replying to - immediately above mine.

 

[hammers]

As I understand it, the investigation is continuing, but some electrical fault in the temporary elevator
being used by the workers engaged in restoration work, and/or inflammable material stored overnight
by those workers, are the lines being followed.

Thank you

 

[messaline]

Come on Messa, move with the times!

Is it because our world is completely crazy that we do be crazy ?
Notre-Dame is a "historical monument" ( recognized like that ) and do get our total respect !

 

[cruxlover]

Is it because our world is completely crazy that we do be crazy ?
Notre-Dame is a "historical monument" ( recognized like that ) and do get our total respect !

Should Makar be a "historical monument" too? Alternatively - any of the young ladies of our ken?

 

[Eulalia]

Should Makar be a "historical monument" too? Alternatively - any of the young ladies of our ken?

There are very many crosses in Anjou and Bretagne that Messaline has made even more historic monuments!

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

Is it because our world is completely crazy that we do be crazy ?
Notre-Dame is a "historical monument" ( recognized like that ) and do get our total respect !

I agree, Messaline. I was joking.

 

[Apostate]

Just going to drop this in and move on.

The Parthenon was a working building and place of worship until the Turks started using it for an ammo dump and let it blow up in 1687. And a few centuries later Lord Elgin swiped the statues off the pediment. Am I the only one who wishes they would just rebuild the damn thing?



Of course there are no ancient Athenians around anymore to care, and lots of modern Parisians who are around and do care. Notre Dame de Paris will be put back the way it was.