Notre-Dame: pre fire photos of roof.

20h52 : Un photographe de l’AFP avait accédé en juin dernier aux combles de la cathédrale, où des travaux de restauration étaient en cours, et où l’incendie s’est développé. Voici quelques-uns de ses clichés.

Some photos were taken by AFP who gained access to the attic/loft areas during the restoration works. The fire seemed to have started in this area,

(LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP)

21h00 : Merci pour votre gentillesse, . Nous ignorons malheureusement si les œuvres présentes dans l’édifice ont pu être sauvées des flammes. Mais le sujet inquiète. Interrogé par franceinfo, Didier Rykner, rédacteur en chef de La Tribune de l’art, estime que cet incendie “est sûrement la plus grande catastrophe patrimoniale depuis la guerre”. “Notre-Dame, c’est des vitraux, des œuvres d’art, des tableaux, des sculptures. C’est dramatique”, a-t-il ajouté.

22h34 : “Notre-Dame est l’un des grands trésors du monde”, réagit l’ancien président américain Barack Obama qui dit “penser au peuple de France dans ce moment de douleur”. “Notre-Dame de Paris is one of the greatest treasures in the World”, said former USA president Baarack Obama who also added “we are thinking of the French people in their hour of pain”.

“La Sainte Couronne est, sans doute, la plus précieuse et la plus vénérée des reliques conservées à Notre-Dame de Paris”. “Elle est porteuse de plus de seize siècles de prière fervente de la Chrétienté.“The Holy Sacred Crown is, without doubt the most precious and venerated relic kept at Notre-Dame de Paris”. It has been the object of fervent Christian prayer for sixteen centuries”.


(PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP)

22h41 : La couronne d’épines et la tunique de Saint-Louis ont été sauvées des flammes, annonce le recteur de la cathédrale. The crown of thorns and the tunic of St Louis were saved from the flames (removed due to the on-going renovations), according to the cathedral’s rector.

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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