We will rebuild -- but it will take decades. I'm from Nantes, a city with a beautiful medieval cathedral. Its roof was entirely destroyed in a fire in 1972, in very similar circumstances. It took 40 years to rebuild.https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1117914466560036866 …
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The good news is that nothing truly irreplaceable was lost. Cathedrals get perpetually rebuilt as part of their regular lifecycle - like the ship of Theseus. The spire that fell was a 1860 addition by Viollet-le-Duc. It's normally meant to be a more incremental process though...
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Fun fact: when it comes to the Nantes cathedral, the 1972 fire that destroyed the roof was started by a roofer with a blowtorch, working on the finishing touches of restoration work that was addressing damage from... the 1944 allied bombings. Work is never over.
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It took 13 years to rebuild the roof itself, but the complete restoration work only ended in 2008.
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