Month: April 2019

it’s a good one

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2019/apr/18/steve-bell-on-emmanuel-macron-and-the-notre-dame-cathedral-fire-cartoon

Lily Safra has said she will give $22 million and Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, the owner of L’Oreal, pledged another $100 million, according to sources.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/2-jewish-philanthropists-pledge-122-million-toward-restoring-notre-dame/

Aditya Chakrabortty @chakrabortty is worried that many of the vast donations to the renovation after the fire may be wrong or at least misguided.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/18/billionaires-donations-notre-dame-france-inequality

Apparently not, sob.

Perhaps, now? please…

Hahahahahaha, success, that gets a smile.

The chief priest of Notre Dame has said catholic worshippers will soon be able to use a wooden church in the grounds of Notre Dame while the renovation is done.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/18/notre-dame-to-get-ephemeral-wooden-cathedral-during-rebuild

 

the Hunchback Of Notre Dame has become a bestseller following the recent fire.

Since I wouldn’t want anyone to miss out, here’s an online version on the English text which is now in the public domain.

The French Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, has announced that an international architectural competition to redesign the roofline of Notre Dame Cathedral will be held.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/apr/17/france-announces-architecture-competition-rebuild-notre-dames-spire