Notre-Dame: The Soul of France – Audiobook On-line Free
Notre-Dame: The Soul of France is an artwork e book by Agnès Poirier.
The deep emotion all over the world when seeing the picture of Notre Dame in flames opens a collection of questions: Why are folks so deeply moved? Why does Notre-Dame crystallize so clearly what’s our civilization? What makes ‘Our Girl of Paris’ the soul of a nation and a logo of human achievement? What’s talking on to us at the moment?
In response, Agnès Poirier turns to decisive moments in Notre Dame’s historical past. Starting with the laying of the cornerstone in 1163, she recounts Henri IV’s conversion to Catholicism, Napoleon’s coronation, Victor Hugo’s Nineteenth-century church preservation marketing campaign, Baron Haussmann’s clearing the streets in entrance of the church, Liberation in 1944, the Nineteen Fifties movie The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, starring Gina Lollobrigida and Anthony Quinn, and the state funeral of Charles de Gaulle, earlier than again to the current.
The battle over the reconstruction of Notre Dame guarantees to be very acrimonious. There may be nothing greater than a tradition conflict happening between the smart and the daring, the honest and the opportunistic, the historians and the soldiers, the religious and the secular. It was right here that Poirier revealed the profound unrest – gilet jaunes and all – within the coronary heart of France.
This e book represents precisely how I felt in regards to the nice hearth on the time. Though I’m not French and am not accustomed to the structure of Notre Dame, to me it is without doubt one of the most necessary symbols of France and of Western Civilization.
It’s unthinkable {that a} hearth with such gravity might occur nowadays.
I totally help the choice to keep up the seen look of the Cathedral however I strongly disagree that the roof construction must be restored with wooden. Steel alloys which are a lot stronger and lighter can be utilized, that are simpler to buy, manufacture and erect, and are hearth resistant.
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