IN MEMORIAM: Notre Dame – a modest proposal By J Brooks Spector parkhurst1
Like so many others, years ago, on a business trip to Paris, my Parisian counterparts thought the very best thing for me to do after a busy day of meetings was to have supper in a neighbourhood brasserie that offered a totally unobstructed view of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, directly across the river from where we sat.
And so, like so many millions around the globe, this writer was stunned and shocked by the conflagration that nearly engulfed that cathedral just days ago. The televised images of the cataclysmic engulfing of the towers beamed into our household just like everyone else’s for hours on end. It is important to remember that many of the world’s ultra-rich have, in the past hundred years or so, done just that with a good chunk of their wealth.
Think about this bit of history. Back in the latter half of the 19th century, the French government had decided to construct a giant statue commemorating freedom and liberty and then give it as a gift to the American people. Rather than funding it as a national governmental project, millions of the French people were encouraged to send their contributions to the organisers, in contributions big and small.
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