Francis Picabia, 'Notre-Dame de Paris', 1908

856 ans d’histoire… 

Notre Dame De Paris

I am saddened of course by the loss of any great beautiful artefact but am minded to comment it is a 'thing', a building and am pretty sure the Catholic Church can afford to rebuild it. There have been already, whilst the embers are still being dampened, promises of over £400 million to rebuild it which of course should not be beyond the wit of man. My responses are that the loss of any great beautiful artefact transcends politics and religion. Over one hundred firefighters worked on getting the blaze under control. Thankfully without any losses and whilst all the wood which took some 1300 trees back in antiquity to build, the stone is seemingly still left standing.

Nobody was hurt, no lives lost. 

All is not lost.

We can rebuild it!