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Old Crank

(7,191 posts)
Tue May 12, 2026, 04:12 PM 4 hrs ago

A cleaned up church in Paris.

We like to go to organ concerts, so when he went through Paris we got tickets to hear one in the newly rebuilt Notre Dame Cathedral. Here are a few pictures of how she looks now. Very nice restoration.











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A cleaned up church in Paris. (Original Post) Old Crank 4 hrs ago OP
Beautiful ZDU 4 hrs ago #1
You are welcome Old Crank 4 hrs ago #2
Gorgeous, thank you for sharing! Diamond_Dog 3 hrs ago #3
Magnificient! Thanks for sharing. brer cat 3 hrs ago #4
Wow... ultralite001 2 hrs ago #5
Beautiful pictures and a lovely restoration. COL Mustard 2 hrs ago #6
Those fire fighters and priests in 2019 saved so much irisblue 2 hrs ago #7
Don't let Donald see these pics popsdenver 2 hrs ago #8
Such a beautiful cathedral! demosincebirth 1 hr ago #9
Astounding. But you won't believe this. AverageOldGuy 1 hr ago #10

Old Crank

(7,191 posts)
2. You are welcome
Tue May 12, 2026, 04:22 PM
4 hrs ago

It was a pleasure to hear the organ also.
They had an American organist that night as luck would have it.

Diamond_Dog

(40,976 posts)
3. Gorgeous, thank you for sharing!
Tue May 12, 2026, 04:56 PM
3 hrs ago

I would love to see the inside but I will have to settle for photos.

ultralite001

(2,655 posts)
5. Wow...
Tue May 12, 2026, 05:35 PM
2 hrs ago

Just wow...

Considering how 💔💔💔 it was watching the images of the fire,
this is balm for the soul.

Thank you for sharing...

COL Mustard

(8,364 posts)
6. Beautiful pictures and a lovely restoration.
Tue May 12, 2026, 05:43 PM
2 hrs ago

They definitely did it right.

It looks very different from the last time I was there, in the last century. Maybe someday....

popsdenver

(2,580 posts)
8. Don't let Donald see these pics
Tue May 12, 2026, 06:03 PM
2 hrs ago

Who knows that he won't want one and maybe tear down the Lincoln Monument or something else to build it.....knowing that his fanatical, fringe, right wing, zealot, bible thumpers would love it.......

AverageOldGuy

(4,134 posts)
10. Astounding. But you won't believe this.
Tue May 12, 2026, 06:55 PM
1 hr ago

Wife is from Alabama. Just as I left Mississippi at 18 and never looked back, she put Alabama in her rearview mirror at 18.

Her sister-in-law in Alabama died four months after the Notre Dame fire. We went to Alabama for the funeral, spent a few days visiting her family and old friends. Two of her old friends are married to each other. She was a high school English teacher for 35 years, he was mayor of their town and later member of the Alabama House of Delegates -- intelligent, educate people. So we thought.

Our daughter was in France at the time and she visited the burned-out Notre Dame. We told wife's friends where our daughter was, that she had visited the burned-out Notre Dame and they did not know that there had been a fire AT NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY IN INDIANA, USA. When we told then, well, no, not that Notre Dame, we are talking about the fire four months ago that almost destroyed the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, well, NO, THEY HAD NOT HEARD OF THAT.

Wife and I were calm, didn't flip out. But when we left, wife went through the roof -- "How could (her friend) get so stupid? Did not hear the news that the Notre Dame Cathedral had burned? WTF??? How %$# %^&^&&^%$%$ stupid can she be and that dumbass (husband's name) what the ###$#@#$% is his problem?? I don't know those people. "

We went to a local BBQ joint where she ate a whole rack of ribs before she calmed down.

And that, folks, is Alabama for you.

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