Notre Dame Cathedral

[Tiki Tom]

I very much support this.
According to the article, up in Burgundy they have been slowly rebuilding a medieval castle, using only materials and techniques that were used in the Middle Ages. This is the very definition of “old school.”
Now they are transferring these skills to the rebuilding of Notre Dame.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/restoring-notre-dame-the-old-way/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...c6N9ecZI02WabgA7GYFCTs6u882YbzpM6jy7v1ZqVwLpY

First they found oak trees big enough for the job. Now they are using appropriate rebuilding techniques. Sounds like the rebuild is not going to be the disaster that I had feared. Quote: “This is not just nostalgia. There is a reason the roof lasted 800 years. This is why. There is no heart in Sawmill wood.” Love that quote.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Notre Dame is slowly giving up her secrets.
Two previously undocumented coffins have been dug up In the course of the reconstruction. The details of the lives of the occupants are a window into the distant past. Haunting.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...uncovered-tombs-start-to-reveal-their-secrets

 

[FOXTROT LAMONT]

Not Esmerelda and Quasimodo to be sure.

 

[Tiki Tom]

The bells have been returned to Notre Dame.

https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240912-eight-bells-return-to-belfry-of-notre-dame-in-paris

Can‘t wait to hear them ring again.
By all accounts, the rebuilding is being done with great attention to detail.

 

[Tiki Tom]

AND the bells ring out for the first time!
Wish I could have been there to hear them.

https://www.barrons.com/news/notre-...paris-for-first-time-since-2019-fire-466132fa

Ah, sitting in a cafe’ off Place Saint-Michel on a crisp fall day, enjoying a glass of red wine, and suddenly the bells begin to ring. Heaven!