I heart Paris in the Springtime

Normandy in Springtime is bettah HA!

food will be bought on bouze crooz on Saturday, yippeeeee

I love Paris. The Pompidou is a wonderful building with as delightful a pool as I've ever see next door and loads of great art inside. Seurat is one of my most loathed artists, but there is lots of good stuff in the d'Orsay - and in the little Orangerie. I wasn't so taken with Montmartre. Notre Dame is magnificent, if you like Gothic, and I do.

Just sing it, Jim. I know you can. ;-)

Right behind Hank there is the place where Jacques de Molay was burned at the stake.

it's the gardens, the tree-lined boulevards, the cool, still evenings, the unselfconscious devotion to leisure. I want to cry!

XPOST - I used a live about a block from that statue.

http://www.laduree.fr/images_univers/univers.gif

I'll subsidize your expenses how! I'll take the explicitly British as long as I don't have to live there.

I saw that. Also I was reminding that dumping cold water on hot rocks = disaster

This thread does a great job explaining the issues surrounding extinguishing the fire here.

After my last tweet, I got a couple DMs asking firefighting related questions about the #NotreDameFire.

I -like most of you- are watching from a world away. But if you’re interested in some profession specific things I’d note/be concerned of, you can follow this thread. pic.twitter.com/golMnbYsDK

— Gregg Favre (@GreggFavre) April 15, 2019

The idea of those extraordinary rose windows being gone is something I can't even comprehend.

Much has already been lost forever, like the Buddhas of Bamyan or the mausoleums of Timbuktu. Or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon…

Have been dwelling on the Bamiyan buddhas alongside this, catastrophe can be natural or manufactured and it can strike anywhere and ring out for long centuries. I don't long for the return of the temple cult but would I wail and weep at the western wall? I might.

Or the National Museum of Brazil.

A priest from Notre Dame Cathedral reports that all the art work and the holy relics contained in the cathedral has been saved.

— Medievalists.net (@Medievalists) April 15, 2019

amazing if true, but also unless you count stained glass windows etc as art i guess?

bbc just offered an on-screen quote of a statement by macron by translating the actual name of the church as "Our Lady Of Paris" thx bbc, helpful

the building itself is art

right, that was my point.

anchor people just flailing now, filling time, no idea what to say, feel slightly sorry for them. at least sky is finding people for their anchor to interview, on the bbc it's just babbling about craftsmanship and quality like they're describing a new handbag. tho lol the interviewee on sky just said it would take many "francs" to reconstruct. no doubt, no doubt

They’re evacuating the Île de la Cité

The pompiers are not sure they can keep the fire from the north bell tower

Current concern is that the back of the cathedral is about to collapse

Pompiers now say they think they’ve saved the building, though it’s still far from certain.

Fingers crossed.

t/s "les pompiers" vs. "los bomberos"

bomberxs

Seeing as 'pompier' can also mean a blowjob or describe an artist with a penchant for overblown kitsch, 'bombero' doesn't stand a chance.

(The former because of, well, pumping, the latter because of pompousness.)

Les Pompiers and Los Bomberos are both such wonderfully self contained words.

Los Bomberos in Chile are all volunteer and unpaid which seems completely ridiculous.

Such an incredible building to enter. Literally breathtaking. This is a many-decades-long project if it's possible at all. Absolutely Tragic.

well, i never got there... just last night watched Agnes Varda in a rowboat along the Seine.

"The North and South rosettes are probably lost. Judging by the images, the large rosette should be intact, as well as the organ."

Inside #NotreDame. Only a small part of the vault collapsed. Interior seems relatively untouched. Alleluia! pic.twitter.com/uI47wQ6WaB

— Axel Reinaud (@areinaud) April 15, 2019

Guardian saying the north rose window survived.

Post a controversial opinion:the spire should never have been replaced back in whenever. The building was glorious without it (it was glorious with it obviously but not because of the spire).

#Breaking: Newly released pictures from inside the cathédrale Notre-Dame de #Paris. #NotreDame in #France, from this morning showing the extensive damage and the, the Rose window was spared from the fire! pic.twitter.com/jeGhM0g0VQ

— Sotiri Dimpinoudis ❁‏ (@sotiridi) April 16, 2019

welled right up at the phrase "the long now":

The fire department in Paris followed a protocol: Save the people, save the art, save the altar, save what furniture you can, then focus on the structure, in that order. They know what can be rebuilt and what can't.

— Michael ... .-.. .- ...- .. - -.-. .... (@_theek_) April 15, 2019

i mean ffs

Versailles oaks. They're ready. pic.twitter.com/QvE7LGUSW7

— Michael ... .-.. .- ...- .. - -.-. .... (@_theek_) April 15, 2019

Yeah, basically it seems it's "only" the roof that has to be rebuilt(and the spire obviously, but it was "recent" so not a big deal to replace).
I will go check how things look after work today (I work a few minutes away but was already home when it started to burn last night).

xxp I had not read this and have had to step away for a minute

already received spam asking for donations to rebuild

it featured the university of notre dame (in south bend, indiana) logo

go irish

Always respond to "go irish" with "thank you" bc i am awkward

I respond with "beat buckeyes" because of that one game in 96 but I get it

maybe it was a charitable fund to repair paul ryan

worst football club in the world sorry https://t.co/k7xUmhPAT7

— manutd23 (@manutd24) April 16, 2019

My brother's best friend is suffering from severe Catholic guilt because, when they were both 17, they went busking in Paris and he stole a candle from Notre Dame as a present for his mother. In a very real sense, it was that candle started this fire.

In a quick scroll through facebook this a.m. I had a great time unfollowing/unfriending ppl posting variations of the "how dare you be sad about a RELIGIOUS BUILDING when there is so much suffering in the world happening to PEOPLE" strawman. Like jfc the ashes arent even cool yet.

haha yes one of my kids' teachers took this line today in class.

I'm gonna go check out the cathedral tomorrow afternoon. my oldest visited the scene today (well, from a distance, since things are going to be blocked off for a while). she said it...looked bad

https://i.imgur.com/4SJ5SZT.jpg

I just went there. A lot of people, obviously, especially since some parts are closed.
Frankly, from the front it’s as if nothing happened and from the other sides, if you try to think the roof is under construction... or is flat (!) well, the rest looks in good shape.
We’ve been lucky in a way.

lol I went to look at the smoldering pentagon on 9/12, I was 12, why did we do that

those aren't oak trees in that tweet

yeah it was deleted

My brother's best friend is suffering from severe Catholic guilt because, when they were both 17, they went busking in Paris and he stole a candle from Notre Dame as a present for his mother. In a very real sense, it was that candle started this fire.

I once jumped like two hours' worth of queue at the Vatican so I hope they've got their insurance in order.

Sorry, didn’t mean to shit on an uplifting Tweet. I thought it was kinda funny trying pawn those slender delicate trees off as hearty oaks.

I walked by the cathedral a little bit ago and it looks less different than I’d expected. Just missing the roof really. It might look weirder from the back but I was too lazy to go that far.

Which is to say: it doesn’t look burned.

lol yes i shd probably have double-checked as i already know i am a massive nitwit when it comes to identifying trees (lol my dad was a professional botanist, i just left such tasks to him) and i even very briefly paused to think "are those oaks? versailles oaks it says here legit i guess" *MASH SUBMIT BUTTON*

the long-game prepping of trees for use in buildings *is* something (some) architects are well aware of so it's not entirely implausible