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Notre-Dame de Paris

Notre Dame de Paris : The stone ship had lead sails
April 15, 2019, fire of Notre Dame de Paris... Those who visited my site know that I have a particular affection for the Seine in Paris and naturally for the two islands it surrounds and their monuments... I went there to photograph the cathedral and I decided to compare these new images with those I collected during my walks. Beyond the media hysteria, selfish statements, political recuperations and opportunistic financial commitments that we have already witnessed, I have decided to publish these different images of this place that belongs, despite everything, also to my personal geography...

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The front of the cathedral by night
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The front of the cathedral after the fire
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It's not the fire ... Sunset on Notre-Dame before the fire...
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After the fire... During the day and with the scaffolding installed for the rehabilitation work of the cathedral .
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The "stone ship" at night 1
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The stone ship has lost its sail...
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The "stone ship" at night 3
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The "stone ship" 2 after the fire
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The spire of the cathedral that fell 1
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The spire of the cathedral and the statues
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The spire of the cathedral 3
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The dark side of the cathedral
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The gargoyles in daylight
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The gargoyles by night 1
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The gargoyles by night 2
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Firemen are watching the cathedral.
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On the bridges and roads surrounding the cathedral, we meet a crowd of journalists and tourists who take family photos in front of the cathedral to bring back an "interesting" and "original" memory of their trip to Paris...
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One of the firemen (who did a remarkable job during the fire), contemplates the cathedral in the middle of the gargoyles...
I don't know what he's thinking, but as far as I'm concerned (and naturally regretting this accident), I can only wonder what it revealed about the country in which I live:
What about the functioning of a state in which it is possible in a few days to mobilize hundreds of millions of euros to rebuild a monument when more and more citizens find themselves in precarious situations because of the measures taken by those who are responsible for it...
What about those same rulers who are taking advantage of this event to try to distract the French from the vacuity of the responses they bring to a crisis that has been shaking the country for more than 6 months?
What can we say about their failure to take into account the consequences of the fire for Parisians and their children who inhaled several hundred tons of lead from the roof of Notre Dame, which was transformed into dust and scattered over the capital?
How to analyze the fact that they have objectively put in danger this firefighter and his colleagues, the workers, the police officers who were mobilized to intervene around this fire without appropriate protections in order, it seems, not to scare tourists?
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