Notre Dame rises again

Since the time that article was written, several problems have arised&#x2F;surfaced concerning the restoration project (Le canard enchainé, June 26 2022, p.5):<p><pre><code> - Some of the wood used in the foundational carpentry work (tabouret) was found to not meet quality criteria ( not dry enough ). - An other lead sarcophagus was found on site in June. Georgelin refused to have archeologists extract and&#x2F;or study it. - The stacked bungalows used as life quarters for workers do not meet the security criteria and part of them are therefore not allowed to be used. </code></pre> It should also be noted that Georgelin is willing to do anything in order to meet the 2024 deadline, even if it means botching all the work.

I was fortunate enough to visit it the year before it caught on fire.<p>It&#x27;s just a cathedral, I thought, just an attraction to check off from my &#x27;list of things to see&#x27; so I visited it on a whim really on a lazy Sunday afternoon while I was around the area. Oh man, there is something about it, the grandness, the structure. The rebuild appears to going for a very faithful reconstruction of what it was before.<p>Definitely go see it if you get the chance.

There&#x27;s a wonderful interview with the photographer for this piece, Tomas van Houtryve, on Leica&#x27;s blog: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leica-camera.blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;05&#x2F;09&#x2F;rebuilding-notre-dame&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leica-camera.blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;05&#x2F;09&#x2F;rebuilding-notre-dame&#x2F;</a>.

Meta: What structures built today will be thought important&#x2F;sacred&#x2F;useful enough to be kept around for several hundred years?<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Notre-Dame_de_Paris" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Notre-Dame_de_Paris</a>

A wonderful article. As a lover of art history, Notre Dame is an interesting example of European living art. As a former Catholic now atheist, I just don&#x27;t know exactly how I feel about it&#x27;s symbolism.<p>I never had doubt that the cathedral would be rebuilt, though. A few years to rebuild is merely a wink in the time it took to, &quot;finish&quot; it.

For anyone interested in the kind of timber framing used in these buildings, here are a couple of videos that I&#x27;ve been enjoying:<p>Carl Rogers &amp; family are restoring an old French farmhouse and have a series of very well made videos about the process. There are separate 1-5 videos of this barn build, but here&#x27;s a shorter version that&#x27;s combined: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;K75pQ2HxRgM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;K75pQ2HxRgM</a><p>Another good channel has this recent video showing a legit medieval castle being rebuilt in France using simple tools and traditional methods. There&#x27;s a section on working with green oak where they use a side-axe to square up some lumber <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Ajqort8ldXA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Ajqort8ldXA</a><p>Mr Chickadee is another high quality channel for expert timber framing using hand-tools only <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;MrChickadee" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;MrChickadee</a>

Rebuilding &quot;as it was&quot;, despite calls for modernization, is also something that happened after the Great Fire of London in 1666. Especially Christopher Wren, one of the most famous architects of XVII century, was supposedly very upset that his plan for a concentric ring-like city plan was rejected, in favour of rebuilding the city with all its tangled medieval street plan.

Can the wood beams be seen in the cathedral? Do visitors ever tour the roof area? I&#x27;m trying to understand why it is so important to rebuild it exactly like the original, the benefits of this besides being faithful to the historical structure. Wouldn&#x27;t it make more sense to innovate and make a new roof that would offer potential features to the cathedral?<p>Anyway I thought this part was funny<p>&gt; “I see, monsieur, you have been contaminated by those who believe the president of the republic should not be interfering in the reconstruction of Notre Dame,” he boomed. “You have been contaminated by the party of slowness.” Georgelin is a good-humoured alpha type<p>Sounds more like a condescending way to avoid addressing the topic to me, personally. But that&#x27;s just my opinion.

Thank god they didn&#x27;t pick one of those modern atrocities.<p>And yes, before any speculate, I am unironically an out-of-the-closet bigot.

Nice little story about how the people burnt Notre Dame a couple centuries ago. This makes me think about how Notre Dame has been rising for a millennium, how are we supposed to believe it &quot;took fire&quot; exactly? Cause the article is clear: last time it burnt like that it was because people did it on purpose. Do you think whoever did this has been forgiven, or &quot;is yet to be found&quot;?

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This website is cancer. Randomly switch to a different article. And hijack the history in a loop.

I wonder if there&#x27;s any article keeping track of how much money the billionaires actually donated vs. the promise &amp; pledge competition between them when the topic was still hot?

Tl;Dr it&#x27;s being rebuilt exactly as before (according to the 19th century Viollet-le-Duc restoration).

Any bets on what cursed specimen is inside the lead sarcophagus?

I never knew what a flying buttress was. They sure are ugly. Makes the building look like a group of giant spiders.

The pictured glass plate photos seem fake to me, i.e. they seem to be recent pictures which have been photoshoped to look like glass plates:<p>If you go to the gallery you&#x27;ll notice the 3rd picture contains some cables at the bottom.<p>These cables seem to be attached to the building by a *transparent* piece of material.<p>Which would be plastic I guess?<p>And transparent plastic wouldn&#x27;t have been used for attaching cables to buildings back then?<p>It also says &quot;Photograph by Tomas van Houtryve&quot;, and that person is still alive according to Google. If it really were glass plates he would probably be dead already?