Notre Dame Cathedral: 5 things you should know

A fire has blazed through Notre Dame Cathedral, the 856-year-old Parisian monument, on April 15, 2019, doing irreparable damage to the gothic masterpiece. Here are five facts about this iconic Paris landmark.

1. The cornerstone of Notre-Dame de Paris, meaning "Our Lady of Paris," was laid in 1163. Under the direction of Maurice de Sully, the site was where a pagan temple once stood.
2. According to Notre Dame's website, its towers stand 220 feet tall and the building is more than 400 feet long. Notre Dame Cathedral is almost 52,000 square feet.
4. Victor Hugo's famous novel, 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame,' was published in 1831. Its main character is a bellringer named Quasimodo, who falls in love with a street dancer named Esmeralda.
5. The cathedral was devastated during the French Revolution in the 1790s. Many of the religious icons were destroyed during the looting.

[stoneyja]

Guess who started this? During holy week nonetheless. Make your own conclusions.

[stephanefournier]

Yes it is deplorable and shattering, but not as much
as raped women, children beaten or badly treated, but not as much as eyes and
hands in less yellow vests, not as much as plastic in the oceans, not as much
as the life of wandering homeless and their dead in general indifference.

Yes, it is unfortunate and unfortunate that such a
beautiful damaged building, but it is repairable, erasable and replaceable in
the DIFFERENCE of the eyes and hands in less Yellow Vests, children dead under
the necks, lives broken after a rape, dead animals after ingesting plastic

You who prayed and cried for our lady made for
humanity and human distress and NOT FOR STONES and why do not you revolt
against the sale of mansions, as old as our lady and sold to foreign countries
by the government French

Beyond the symbol it embodies, they are beautiful by
the technicality and sweat of the men and women who have thought it, built,
renovated, maintained over time and as long as these men and women are there
she will live and will be redone

So prayed and wept for all these men and women who are
no longer there, for the misfortune imposed on them

For humanity and NOT FOR STONE

SAVE men and women who have the skills to remake,
maintain, repair, ... because You who amassed fortunes you participate in the
slow death of the carpenter, the painter, the stonemason, the draftsman, the
sweeper, ...

GIVE your money for the education and learning of
these trades. Give your money so that their families can live with dignity CAR
YOUR MONEY can not repair, maintain, renovate, ... FOR HUMANITY AND NOT STONE
!!!