9 minutes agoWhat does Notre Dame mean to the French
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)No other country represents France as Notre-Dame. Its main rival as a national symbol is the Eiffel Tower. The cathedral has named one of the country's literary masterpieces. Victor Hugo's novel is known to the French simply as Notre Dame de Paris. The last time the cathedral suffered damage [...]
No other country represents France as Notre-Dame.
Its main rival as a national symbol is the Eiffel Tower. The cathedral has named one of the country's literary masterpieces. Victor Hugo's novel is known to the French simply as Notre Dame de Paris.
The last time the cathedral suffered major damage was the time during the French Revolution, when statues of saints were thrown by hot anti-clyric heads. The building survived the 1871 Communist uprising, as well as two world wars, remained largely intact, writes BBC, Periscope broadcast
Along the coasts of Senine in the central part of the capital is seen most of Notre-Dame.
In the three decades I've spent in town, I haven't been inside Notre-Dame more than three or four times because the rest is just for foreign visitors.
The cathedral is not the only most popular tourist country in Western Europe. Eight centuries after its completion, it is also still a place of worship about 2,000 services are held there annually.
But it is also much more than a religious place. President Emmanuel Macro has expressed a friend of a whole “nation in the fire. As Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said, Notre Dame is “part of our common heritage”.
