In the tragedy of the Notre Dame fire, the mourning French are finding a shared mission, johnleicester reports:
People attend a vigil in Paris, Tuesday April 16, 2019. Firefighters declared success Tuesday in a more than 12-hour battle to extinguish an inferno engulfing Paris' iconic Notre Dame cathedral that claimed its spire and roof, but spared its bell towers and the purported Crown of Christ.
Experience says the new-found unity won’t last. It didn’t even after gunmen massacred 130 people at the Bataclan concert hall and other Paris sites in 2015 and killed 17 in the attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket. Then, France shared a slogan, “Je suis Charlie,” in a similar way that it now shares the pain of Notre Dame.
Instead, Macron spoke to the nation Tuesday. “What we’ve seen together in Paris overnight, it’s our ability to unite”, he said. In 2001, France wept for the United States and the attacks’ victims from multiple countries. “We are all Americans,” newspaper Le Monde famously said. “During these hours of anguish, I seemed to sense that the old Gallic cockerel was awaking from its torpor,” he wrote in an email to parishioners that fellow priests quickly shared.
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