I visited Notre Dame in about 1986, and was very impressed. On the same trip, I had found the cathedrals of England too light inside to give any great sense of age, and their role felt more as architectural tourist destination than living place of worship. But Notre Dame was darker, had the haze of incense in the yellowish light, and held masses which gave a real sense of reverence. Its atmosphere was distinctly medieval, or how I felt medieval should be, at least.
I must have some photos of it in the slide box. I do have a slide scanner that I haven't used for many, many years, and probably gives a much lower quality than what you can get now.
Still, this gives me motivation to scan some and see what I can "save".
Meanwhile, I see that its partial destruction is like catnip to alt.right conspiracy theorists. I'll link to stuff later.
And finally, if ever there is a company which ought to contribute to its reconstruction, it would be Disney. It is planning a live action version of Hunchback of Notre Dame, and almost certainly it would have been a complete CGI creation anyway. The company should make the movie and donate all profit to the re-construction. Given that could easily be several hundred million dollars, it should go a long way towards the task.
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