Seriously, hope that they can dowse this quickly and minimise damage as much as possible. As to the nuances of the language, yes the church is feminine in french and it would be brulée - in terms of the national motto, then it's a single é.... I'm taking the p out of the French government.....
How much wood do they have there up in the roof? But then look at the way Windsor went up....
//Shame some are finding this a jocular event but as he would say:
Typical for AB innit guvnor!! Cor blim.ey!!//
oh come on Sunny ! none of us can do anything- my garden hose aint long enough. It looks as tho the whole nave roof has gone - 25 mins. And repair work WAS being done .... when Richard Brinsley Sheridan's theatre ( Theatre Royal I Think) was burning - the author got a chair and started reading a newspaper. A passerby wondered why he wasnt more proactive and he replied - a man can sit beside his own fire can;t he?
( recognised that the whole thing was not salvageable apparently)
This is awful... my daughter showed me a picture as I came in from work just now, as she was there last year. I thought she was winding me up at first, but sadly not.
the pompiers ( french for firemen - just to vex the mono-glots) cant get the water up to the cathedral. that is why you can see fire but no firemen apparently. God it cd be London - one side borders the Seine by the way
where is 3T and his elf n safety one liners when you need him?
why aren't they using choppers to lift water from the Seine and dropping it on the cathedral.....and, jeez, this is 'no worse' than Montparnasse or La Defense high-rises going up - or where I worked, near the Gare de Lyon.