Notre Dame: Father Of Daughter Found In Photo That Went Viral

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The search for a tender father-daughter couple captured in a photo in front of Notre Dame Cathedral just an hour before Monday's fierce fire has ended. As reported by its author -a tourist, who like thousands visited the temple that day- the magic of Twitter helped her locate them.

“I took this photo when we were leaving #NotreDame about an hour before the fire started. I almost wanted to go to Dad to ask if he loved her. Now I wish I had. Twitter, if you have any magic, help me find them, wrote Brooke Windsor, author of the photo, when posting it on Monday in networks.

Almost immediately the photo went viral, with more than 200,000 people sharing it left and right and almost half a million “likes”.

This Thursday, the woman posted a tweet saying that the couple had finally been identified. "The search is over!" He said in the message. “The photo came to the dad and his family. He has preferred to remain anonymous because of the tragedy and writes: 'Thank you again for the beautiful photograph, we will find a special place for it.' Thank you to all who shared the image and for your kind words.”

In a separate tweet, Brooke added: “He was the one who contacted me on Twitter. I always knew that you could do it”.

The roof of Notre Dame Cathedral, built approximately 850 years ago, was engulfed in flames on Monday afternoon. The fire destroyed the needle and a good part of the roof from the medieval period, in addition to destroying valuable windows and other precious works.

However, many of the treasures that the sacred precinct kept were saved from the fire because some remodeling works were being carried out and had been previously removed from the place. In other cases, they were saved by firefighters and employees of the cathedral, who ran them out before the flames progressed, and in others, such as the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, they were almost miraculously freed from all damage, as sources have explained. officers of the catholic church.

So far, French businessmen and billionaires, in addition to the government of President Emmanuel Macron have come together to initiate the reconstruction work, raising in record time a fund that already exceeds $ 995 million.