Rebuilding Notre Dame cathedral spire

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Rebuilding Notre Dame cathedral spire

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Making progress on the rebuilding -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbqeJiwg3og
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I remember watching the cathedral burning, the history, architecture and the time it stood really was heart wrenching to see happen.
Happy to see it being reproduced.
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GunnyMack wrote: Wed Mar 29, 2023 3:51 pm I remember watching the cathedral burning, the history, architecture and the time it stood really was heart wrenching to see happen.
Happy to see it being reproduced.
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The quality of the lumber, the incredible skills of the carpenters are testimony to the incredible workmanship displayed by the generations of craftsmen who worked on that cathedral from 1163 to 1345.
The geometry of the architecture, the imagination that conceived of it are beyond belief. And a year after it opened, here came the Black Death.
Thanks for posting, Ray.
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I read an article a few weeks ago that during the reconstruction, they have discovered the use of iron staples being used that pre-date the what archaeologist had previously thought had come about a few hundred years later.
When we were there, the lines for the tour were so long that we never did get inside, I have several pictures of the outside of the cathedral, such beautiful construction. If I remember the article correctly, the reconstruction is ahead of schedule.

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