'What will become of the rubble of Notre Dame now is impossible to say. This time, there is just too much of it.' From KnightLAT:
In October 1793, anti-royalist citizens of Paris stormed the cathedral of Notre Dame, grabbing ropes and pulling down stone sculptures from the monumental façade.
Early Monday evening, when the cathedral, shrouded in scaffolding for restoration work, burned in the greatest cultural tragedy since the intentional ruin of Palmyra’s Old City at the hands of ISIS, those events flooded to mind. The cause of the ruinous inferno is still being diagnosed — errant repairs on the wooden roof are an early guess — and the losses, collectively incalculable, will take time to catalogue individually.prior to the fire, although which ones is unclear.
Abbot Suger would represent the new union in stone and glass. He brushed aside the old way of building for the radically innovative design of the royal Abbey of St.-Denis — shrine of the Apostle of France, memorial to Charlemagne and burial place of his father, Pepin, first of the Carolingians to become king.
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