Mourning the damage to an historic icon
Paris, we all weep with you today.
Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “Weeping for Our Lady,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 16 Apr 2019).
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Mourning the damage to an historic icon
Paris, we all weep with you today.
Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “Weeping for Our Lady,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 16 Apr 2019).
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Un souvenir et un soupir,
Une espérance et une prière,
Que Notre Dame de Paris se lève à nouveau.
A memory and a sigh,
A hope and a prayer,
That Our Lady of Paris will rise again.
And in our lifetimes… that kind of construction takes a loooooooong time… 🙁
Judy,
The pictures were just devastating. I’ve never been to Notre Dame, but I have friends who have. I haven’t had a chance to talk to them yet, but I know they must be weeping as much as Parisians are. One is a retired architectural professor who specializes,among other things, in Gothic cathedrals, in spite of his fear of heights. Before he retired, he used to take classes to Europe, highlighting Notre Dame. His group was allowed up into places that the usual tours couldn’t go, though they frightened him. Even the pictures of the spire falling, and the people weeping in the streets, made me cry. And to think that renovation work started it all. He’s given lectures at our retirement home that made 150 at a time feel like we’d been there.
You’re much more eloquent than I could ever be about it. Thank you so much for honoring her.
Doris
It’s just so heartbreaking to see history in ashes like that…