Arrr! After four-and-a-half centuries, it seems we’ve found some bones at Notre-Dame—better late than never, matey!
2024-09-20
Arrr! In the year o' our Lord 2022, whilst diggin' 'round Notre-Dame, we stumbled upon two bone boxes! One’s ghostly occupant be known, but the other? A mystery still, like a treasure map without an X! Avast, what jolly secrets lie beneath this grand ol’ church!
Ahoy, me hearties! Since that infernal blaze that singed the Notre-Dame Cathedral on the 15th o’ April in the year o’ our Lord 2019, a grand restoration mission be afoot! The scallywags be not just rebuildin’ but diggin’ deep, unearthing treasures from days of yore, like a band of cutthroat archaeologists on a treasure hunt!Now, when ye find shiny trinkets, ye don’t always find the tales they hold, savvy? It takes a bit o’ sleuthin’ to piece together the stories behind these ancient artifacts. Just think o’ the wee lad who stumbled upon a rare gem whilst walkin’ his mutt! In 2022, some clever landlubbers dug up two lead sarcophaguses underneath the cathedral—fit for the likes of a wealthy nobleman!
One was none other than Antoine de La Porte, a canon who kicked the bucket in 1710, but the other? Rumor has it, it be none other than the famed poet, Joachim du Bellay, who met his maker back in 1560! Aye, the good Professor Crubézy spun a yarn about this fella, matchin’ his ailments to the poet’s penned woes. Yet, fear not, for some landlubbers be skeptical, claimin’ the teeth tell a different tale.
So, with over a hundred burials unearthed and more than fifty archaeologists scurrying about, the grand reopening o’ Notre-Dame be on the horizon, set for December 2024! Arrr, what a tale to tell!