Kırmızılar, 15 June 2025
You may recall that the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris suffered a major fire on the evening of April 15, 2019. Caroline Bruzelius, a professor of art history at Duke University, said that such a fire would most likely start in wooden roofs like the one on the Notre Dame cathedral. She explained that “most people don’t see this when they visit the cathedral, but there were about sixty thick planks supporting the roof of the cathedral. So there was a forest of timber between the vaults and the roof. They were old, dry and porous.” France is also very sensitive, old, dry and porous. Charlie Hebdo, the truck attack in Nice, the white caps, the yellow vests… Liberté, égalité, fraternité are things of the past. There is a fear that someone will change the name of Paris... As Lenin who changed the name of Petrograd to Leningrad and Stalin who changed Volgograd to Stalingrad.