[Misc] Notre Dame On Fire

[Dick Head]

French billionaire François-Henri Pinault has just coughed up 100 Million Euros.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...e-rebuild-pinault-donation-french-billionaire



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Phew, the Vatican dodged a bullet there!

 

[Nottseagull]

French billionaire François-Henri Pinault has just coughed up 100 Million Euros.

If he's that flush maybe he could buy Knockaert for his favourite French club.

 

[marlowe]

As it was being renovated a lot of the paintings and objects had already been removed.

They were also removing some during the fire according to this report. The Chaplain of the Paris Firefighters went into the burning cathedral to save the Blessed Sacrament and Crown of Thorns....

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.da...re-Dames-priceless-collection-art-relics.html

 

[OzMike]

Bloody shit timing, my daughter is in Paris this Easter weekend with her boyfriend for her 21st Birthday and was planning to visit Notre Dame.
Will just have to look from the pavement now, shame.

 

[Albion my Albion]

The lord moves in mysterious ways.

Valdemort?

Cavendish?

George Gordon?

 

[Palacefinder General]

Bloody shit timing, my daughter is in Paris this Easter weekend with her boyfriend for her 21st Birthday and was planning to visit Notre Dame.
Will just have to look from the pavement now, shame.

I feel awful for her Mike, just awful. I hope she'll be okay. Maybe Macron could offer her a personal tour of the Palace of Versailles to compensate.

 

[bomber130]

This thread is giving me the right hump.


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[Chicken Run]

I feel awful for her Mike, just awful. I hope she'll be okay. Maybe Macron could offer her a personal tour of the Palace of Versailles to compensate.

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[DavidinSouthampton]

If 'god' had anything to do with it, it wouldn't have caught fire.

Unless he was punishing gays and paedophiles within his company/employment.

It's heartbreaking to see innovative engineering and architectural historical feats destroyed. But frankly, religion has raped and pillaged more than enough to be able to afford restoration.

The responsibility for the maintenance of Church buildings in France rests with the state as part of the settlement on the division of Church and state (1906?), so if bit is rebuilt, it should be the state that pays..

 

[cloud]

Awful as it is, it won't be the first time that historic buildings have been re-built from scratch. Churches, cathedrals and monasteries often caught fire due to their wooden rooves.

Rouen cathedral, which is very similar to Notre Dame, has been re-built several times, Monte Cassino was obliterated but re-built, Dresden Frauenkirche etc

 

[MattBackHome]

The responsibility for the maintenance of Church buildings in France rests with the state as part of the settlement on the division of Church and state (1906?), so if bit is rebuilt, it should be the state that pays..

I thought it was the Archdiocese that was responsible for upkeep in the case of ND.

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[Diablo]

I imagine there will be a very well received appeal. Can see the repair cost being covered in days !

 

[Dorset Seagull]

It’s such a shame that the church is a bit skint and doesn’t have the funds to sort this out. That 100m donation could then maybe have been used to help the homeless or some others in need

 

[Weststander]

The responsibility for the maintenance of Church buildings in France rests with the state as part of the settlement on the division of Church and state (1906?), so if bit is rebuilt, it should be the state that pays..

.....

 

[Titanic]

It’s such a shame that the church is a bit skint and doesn’t have the funds to sort this out. That 100m donation could then maybe have been used to help the homeless or some others in need

That will be a small drop in the ocean of restoration costs. Spurs spent £1bn to build a football stadium

 

[Diablo]

It’s such a shame that the church is a bit skint and doesn’t have the funds to sort this out. That 100m donation could then maybe have been used to help the homeless or some others in need

Don`t think it would look to good if the church had several hundred million in the bank......That 100m is a donation to rebuild Cathedral !!

 

[wellquickwoody]

Police drone photo posted on twitter shows extent of the fire

A flaming cross, a message perhaps?

 

[Hendrax]

Another €200m from Frances richest man. Bernard Arnault.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I thought it was the Archdiocese that was responsible for upkeep in the case of ND.

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If it is, it would presumably be a special case, but you may be right.

 

[Baker lite]

700 years of history going up in smoke. It's heartbreaking to see.

I think Yvette Cooper took care of that last week, the treacherous old horses arse.