Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by anextomp 2571 days ago
The people with the power to change the treaty don't materially care about the restoration and the people in change of the restoration don't have the power to change the treaty.

Without some huge effort to range awareness in favour of changing the Notre Dame for the better, the treaty will remain and those in charge of the repairs will have no say in how they go ahead.

2 comments

The thing is nothing is stopping them from ignoring the treaty and just doing the restoration anyway; no one is going to embargo or declare war on France over medieval architecture
And especially not if done for the entirely reasonable reason of "The wood burned the last time, so this time we're not going to rebuild the internal parts out of wood."

It's also less clear that this treaty applies to rebuilding work; the original intent appears to be preventing unnecessary changes.

Unless of course they were to withdraw from the treaty ...
Tis the season.