Hopefully they don’t do such a thing in the notre dame. Wooden ceilings are extremely important for good accoustics. If everything is concrete & stone, the reverb gets way too long.
I was happy to read, and a lot of good information is spreading currently.
Latry would be very welcome in my place. I would be an humble listener …
they say “ charpente en beton “ for the cathedral of Reims. rebuild after the war.
we don’t know yet…
Yes, concrete frame !
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It will take many years I assume. I really look forward to visit the Notre Dame again.
I read on this site that the organ is really in relative good condition after the fire:
This summer we will visit Strassbourg, I will look with different eyes compared to my last visit 5 years ago.
Nothing like a political diversion: I bet the yellow vests are raising money for the restoration as well, apart from the tax payers’s. Maybe I’m too cynical.
it can take more than 10 years, from what i heard. But i don’t know when people will be able to visit it again. Inside it looks intact, but it tells nothing ( a lot of water and fire during many hours…).
Indeed I have a few recordings including the aptly named Midnight at Notre Dame!
the approximate costs will be around 800 k millions and perhaps more than 1 milliard of euros. Someone well known, Bernard Arnault, gave 200 k millions today.
Someone well known, Bernard Arnault, gave 200 k millions
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All tax deductible no doubt. Again, forgive my cynicism.
i have not thought on this. You are surely right. Or perhaps it’s a well done advertising for LVMH… It’ certainly not a free gift, from this particular man at least.
Well, pardon my own brand of cynicism but:
a) Wasn’t this place insured?
b) If not, why not?
c) In any respect the Roman Catholic Church is not short of a few bob after many hundreds of years of money gathering in all its various forms, something they have been particularly adept at. I’m sure they could find a few coins down the back of the sofa if they looked!
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This is simply not true. It’s all very well being a cynic, but there are times when emotions take over. I know dozens of people who were glued to their TV last night - not watching the French equivalent of Coronation Street, whatever it is. Ordinary people, most of them - believers and non-believers.
I wish Bernard Arnault et al. had given those enormous sums of money before the fire…
No, that’s not cynicism imho, but;
- Much of the art work inside is priceless therefore uninsurable.
- The building itself is owned by the French state, not the Catholic church. Odd to us Brits but that’s the way it is in France. The church are effectively just tenants. Cant think of a better way of describing that.
- Think of the Houses of Parliment in London. Similar parallel perhaps. Current refurbishment is circa £5bn paid from public purse. Parliament is not insured.
- The contractor doing the refurb at Notre Dame will have had insurance, but only a few tens of millions of euros. Not the billions it will cost.
Think of 20 to 30 years work here. And some of the specialist work will have to be relearnt. Not something for an insurance company to have a hand in. No disrespect to the insurance industry of course.
Just my views at present…no doubt there will be much more to come on this story.
Aha, cheers for that. Hence M. Macron promising a few shekels…
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Several thoughts have crossed my mind other than the assumption of an accident as a result of the restoration work, there are certainly many possibilities you’d have to consider, especially those of us prone to cynicism.
Not everybody is interested in the fire. I’ve just turned the tele on to watch the football, it happened to be on BBC News24, were the reporter was solemnly describing the vigil taking place as if it was funeral. My wife looked up from her book and said. Oh, get over it.
I think I’ll be watching NHK world news for a few days, until the BBC cease this over reaction.
Not everybody is interested in football either…strange world 
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