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Victor Hugo did a great job at reviving interest for the cathedral with his book. If it hadn’t been for him, it is entirely possible it would have been destroye

by GuiA 8y ago

Victor Hugo did a great job at reviving interest for the cathedral with his book. If it hadn’t been for him, it is entirely possible it would have been destroyed instead of restored in the mid 1800s, and you wouldn’t care much about it :)

worldsayshi 8y ago
There's an interesting point here somewhere about how a story being of greater cultural impact than the icon that it choose to portray. And yet most people would probably say that the icon itself, the cathedral, is of much greater cultural significance than the story. Or perhaps the two can't really be separated.
johnchristopher 8y ago
On that note, around that time (during the revolutionary period, 1793), Liège (Belgium) disassembled their cathedral brick by brick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lambert%27s_Cathedral,_Li%C3%A8ge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lambert%27s_Cathedral,_L... A 3D rendering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTkk2P0KabA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTkk2P0KabA A picture, google image has more, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint-Lambertuskathedraal_Curtius.jpg?uselang=fr https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint-Lambertuskathed... And as you point it out we don't think much about it these days (for better or worst).
- baud147258 8y ago
  That link is broken https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Sint-Lambertuskathedraal_Curtius.jpg/800px-Sint-Lambertuskathedraal_Curtius.jpgimg.XnM-T2426wQ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Si... I think it's this one: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Sint-Lambertuskathedraal_Curtius.jpg/800px-Sint-Lambertuskathedraal_Curtius.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Si...
  - johnchristopher 8y ago
    Thanks, I tried to be clever. The post now links to the media page instead of the picture.
- titanix2 8y ago
  Really interesting. The Wikipedia page in French is more complete and give more context.

by GuiA 8y ago

worldsayshi 8y ago

There's an interesting point here somewhere about how a story being of greater cultural impact than the icon that it choose to portray. And yet most people would probably say that the icon itself, the cathedral, is of much greater cultural significance than the story. Or perhaps the two can't really be separated.

johnchristopher 8y ago

On that note, around that time (during the revolutionary period, 1793), Liège (Belgium) disassembled their cathedral brick by brick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lambert%27s_Cathedral,_Li%C3%A8ge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lambert%27s_Cathedral,_L... A 3D rendering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTkk2P0KabA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTkk2P0KabA A picture, google image has more, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint-Lambertuskathedraal_Curtius.jpg?uselang=fr https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint-Lambertuskathed... And as you point it out we don't think much about it these days (for better or worst).

baud147258 8y ago
That link is broken https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Sint-Lambertuskathedraal_Curtius.jpg/800px-Sint-Lambertuskathedraal_Curtius.jpgimg.XnM-T2426wQ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Si... I think it's this one: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Sint-Lambertuskathedraal_Curtius.jpg/800px-Sint-Lambertuskathedraal_Curtius.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Si...
- johnchristopher 8y ago
  Thanks, I tried to be clever. The post now links to the media page instead of the picture.
titanix2 8y ago
Really interesting. The Wikipedia page in French is more complete and give more context.