Notre Dame is one of the famous cathedral located in the mid of Paris, France where a deadly fire broke down completely destroying the historical heritage.
If we look at the history, Notre Dame has always taught us
how to survive.
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Notre Dame was there for over 800 years.
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An accurate 856 years.
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To take things into consideration it has seen hundreds of years of invasion, conflicts, plagues, leaders, and crusades.
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Notre Dame was defaced, looted and damaged during the French Revolution.
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In the mid-1800, it underwent about 20 years of renovations, until it got back in its form.
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It survived World War 1.
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It survived World War 2.
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Even after so many invasions, wars and even Hitler, it
survived!
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For over 850, Notre Dame was the symbol of French history, a
symbol of Paris, even world history.
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Then, a big fire broke out!
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In few hours, part of it burnt to the ground.
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But, we have to realize that it isn’t the first time such a thing happened to any historical place.
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The Monte Cassino monastery was destroyed completely during world war 2, this is what It used to look like before the war.
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And this is the view of it after the war.
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But then, it was rebuilt!
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The Dresden Frauenkirche in Germany was also destroyed completely during World War 2.
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Then again, it was rebuilt with the old and new stones from
the original.
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Even The White House in America was burnt down in 1812.
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What happened with Notre Dame is just an unthinkable
tredegy.
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But History is surely on our side.
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This obviously wasn’t the first and will not be the last
time some like that happened.
As a French citizen, I am very saddened about the tragic fire in the Paris Notre Dame cathedral – but here is a thought that makes me feel better: we can rebuild it!
????We did it with the Reims cathedral in France, that faced fire and war (85% destroyed) pic.twitter.com/7Nb0Ikkm6u
