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8 minutes ago600m euros in donations for the Nore Dame Cathedral
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)The various donations of the richest persons and major French companies to finance the reconstruction of the Notre Dame cathedral destroyed yesterday by the fire exceeded 600m euros. The heir family of ICHOreal, Bettencourt-Meers, world giant in the cosmetics field, announced today they donate 200 million euros, adding 200 million [...]
The heir family of I Oreal, Bettencourt-Meyers, world giant in cosmetics, announced today 200m euros, added to 200 million of the Arnault family and the luxury company LVMH and 100 million promised by the Total oil company and the Pinault family (Kering), respectively.
A big fire last night involved the famous Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris.
The cause of the fire is not yet clear, but officials said it could be linked to renovation works.
From the fire, the roof of the 850-year-old Gothic building collapsed.
Last year, the Catholic Church in France rushed for funds to restore the cathedral.
Millions visit it each year.
Maybe no other object represents France better than Notre Dame.
Its main geoval”, a national symbol, the Eiffel Tower, is somewhere in the oldest century. Notre Dame has been part of Paris since the 1200s.
One of the country's literary masterpieces is named after the cathedral. Hugo Victor Hugo's novel of Notre-Dame is known to the French simply as Notre Dame de Paris.
The last time the cathedral suffered serious injuries was during the French Revolution, when statues of saints were robbed by some known as anti - Christian people.
The building had also survived the 1871 Communist uprising and the two world wars.
Locals there are known for not too much love of the sun, but when they walk along the coast of Senine in the central part of the capital, they cannot help but be proud of Notre-Dame.
It's one of the few images that makes a proud Parisian who lives there.
The cathedral is not just the most popular tourist object in Western Europe. Since eight centuries after its completion, there is also a place of worship, about 2,000 services are held there annually.
At the same time, it is much more than a religious place. President Emmanuel Macro has expressed a friend of the entire <x0 national “following the fire.
As Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put it, Notre Dame is “part of our common heritage”.
Many of those who saw the flames capture the building crying. Believers and unbelievers joined and “created the disaster”.
