Sad. I was in the church just two years ago. Items you can't replace other than new are the original stained glass windows and the large pipe organ. Guess the roof and ceiling were wood with stone walls that don't burn but can fail once the upper structure fails. Guess it held up. Even Adolf left it alone when they vacated Paris in '44 and it was nearly lost today.
I am happy to hear that much was saved. Was a terrible disaster but so happy to find that it should be rebuilt and will have the same attractions as the original church.
You think god gives a fuck if a monument to praise men burns down? How about the couple hundred million already donated to rebuild goes to taking care of those the Catholic church abuses?
In researching it's, I had forgotten some of it's history. Started about 850 years ago in 1163 it took 200 yrs. to finish (plus a lot of wine consumed). They had a major problem with the concern that the vertical walls would collapse until a clever priest no doubt came up with the McGyver fix of external 'Flying Buttresses". Elegant design that brace the wall supports down to the ground and solidly braced the cathedral walls for the next 650yrs. till present day. And remember no power tools, no cranes, no cement trucks, no night lighting, all manual labor, annual French weather seasons. A lot of perseverance and goal to finish one of the iconic cathedrals ever built entirely by thousands of hands and 7 generations of workers..
Catholic Church doesn’t own the property, France does. So all these morons sending money in are simply making it less expensive for the 6th richest country in the world (by GDP) to rebuild.
