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I think everybody is capable of observing something. Most anybody is capable of being a part of something. Very few, however, have the courage and gumption to take a stand for something worthwhile if they find it. Providentially, and I mean that absolutely, the Fleur de Lys Club has found not only a fine new member, but a man who has what it takes...a man willing to accept the stakes...to be a real leader on our behalf: his name is MG, please join me in wishing him a warm bienvenue.

We here at the Fleur de Lys Club have no illusions whatsoever about the difficult, I won’t say impossible because they’re not, but difficult obstacles we face while attempting to make the political and a historical truths which combine to form Legitimism, known. His profession is not academic, as are those of many club members, but is that of an engineer. And this is to no means denigrate time tested like-minded friends very much, including those who founded the Fleur de Lys Club with me. Yet it must be allowed that none really have the time or perseverance to take on the role that MG has, that of second in command so to speak, and those willing to go out on a limb or a precarious branch of the liberty tree sight unseen, having faith only in the fundamental righteousness of the cause, those are a rare breed indeed. Follow the link here to listen to exactly what is on his mind.

Good news, I guess, like bad news, comes in threes. Besides the episode of the podcast where we introduce MG for you “Legitimism, Practically” we happily offer another for your listening pleasure and personal edification another episode with far less savory characters…Lunacy and Ecstasy.

The third item of good news? Membership. More specifically, new members. Not only is it rewarding on a intellectual level to see people interested in Legitimism in the United States, On a personal level it is very rewarding in that a true community is being constructed, and it is only communities that we are able to find friends. Any questions regarding membership can be directed to our hotline at (909) 206-4552 or to our email at chargedaffaires@fleurdelys-club.org

God bless you all dear friends, may you have a stupendous week!

Burning Questions...

6/30/2019

Dear friends, bon dimanche! Given that it is Sunday, it seemed fitting to bring you this extremely thought provoking article from our friends in France. It is translated from the original French:

FIRE AT NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL IN PARIS
Written by Reynald Secher dated May 21, 2019
Op Ed in L’Homme Nouveau website

Past the legitimate emotion caused by this incredible event—whatever its cause, we as Catholics have to face a number of metaphysical question, these should help us reflect on the future of Catholics, anticipating the plans that have been clearly expressed at the highest level of the State to disfigure the cathedral within the framework of the ‘restoration’.

As a simple spectator, one could only be startled (not to say shocked) by the approximations, counter truths, ambiguities, the orchestrated silence and then so many soundbites originating from the President of the French Republic, some of his ministers and most of journalists.

Some - utterly convinced that this building which, incidentally, is the first tourist destination in France, was a national museum were at a loss to find out that Masses (which owing to their lack of culture, they refer to as services, events or animations), could still be celebrated there and did not understand why the cathedral was reserved for Catholics. Others could not grasp that some pieces of burnt wood could raise such popular emotion. Still others went as far as to congratulate themselves on thefire. This is the case of a number of journalists from the French radio station France Interwho seized this opportunity to host pseudo cabaret performer and “black humor lover” (sic) Frédéric Fromet, to sing an exemplary piece called ‘the cathedral has caught fire”. It received guffaws from the journalists including in particular anchorman Alex Vizorek, and all the equally self-obsessed guests. By way of introduction, the singer unhesitatingly proclaimed that «the fire of the cathedral was blessed bread» for an artist like him, particularly on a Holy Friday. And a hodgepodge of insanities were bandied about from the most vulgar to the most ignoble and abject. Among all this he expressed his desire for « the end of priests ». And to cap it all, some just could not make out why listeners should be so scandalized and had voiced their outrage in the social media, the only remaining free space.

Nonsense, lack of culture, recklessness, ideology, politics … you name it, the secular State can only be proud (particularly Establishment State Education) of its political acculturation and relativist policy that has been underway for decades: it has killed God as so many politicians have proudly boasted, particularly the former Education minister Vincent Peillon. It should be noted that scarcely anybody has taken the trouble to classify Notre-Dame’s status—even the clergy. As a result, most of the dechristianised general public, if not the entire public, has lost sight of the profound meaning of this building. Some are even convinced that it was home to a certain Esmeralda and to some Quasimodo, whom they cannot figure out too well but who must certainly have been very important characters as they are constantly being mentioned by so many people even at the highest level of the State. I would urge my readers to ask this question about Notre Dame to those around them: they are in for a big surprise.

Notre-Dame was erected at the request of the Bishop of Paris, Maurice de Sully, to replace the Saint-Étienne cathedral deemed too small and outmoded. The new edifice took two centuries to be built in the Gothic style, with funds collected by parishioners, great families and kings.

It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the mother of all mothers, protectress of the Royal family, the city of Paris and the kingdom of France. With time, and given its geographical location, size and social and political role, it has become the ‘mother’ of all cathedrals in France while the bishopric of Paris, likewise, became the archbishopric in 1622.

Throughout the Ancien Régime a number of changes were introduced, one of the first (that can still be seen today) dates back to the beginning of the eighteenth century. It is the work of one of the greatest French architects and decorators: Robert de Cotte (1656-1735). To thank the Virgin Mary for the birth of his son after twenty three years of wedlock, King Louis XIII instituted the Marian processions on August 15 to pay tribute to the Virgin Mother and pledged to erect a new high altar in the cathedral along with a set of sculptures. Unable to make good on his promise, owing to his untimely death, his son, aptly referred to as God’s gift, Louis XIV, maintained his father’s commitment and offered a marble Pieta which was erected between 1712 and 1728 by Nicolas Coustou, flanked on both sides by a statue depicting the sovereigns, on one side, Louis XIII – presenting his crown and scepter to the Virgin Mother – the work of Guillaume Coustou, and on the other, Louis XIV by Antoine Coysevox. The set is surrounded by a series of six bronze angels each carrying an instrument of the Christ’s Passion: the crown of thorns, the nails of crucifixion, the vinegar-soaked sponge, the inscription on top of the cross, the rod with which Christ was flogged and the lance which pierced his heart – the shrine floor is made of colored marble in which a medallion bearing the arms of Louis XIV can be seen.

During the French revolution, the cathedral l, which was the property of the archbishopric of Paris, was nationalized on Nov. 2, 1789 without any compensation and became the property of the State: has remained so to this day. Beyond many acts of vandalisms like the decapitation of the kings of Judah at the top of the façade, the destruction of the statues of the portals, etc., it became alternately a parish church, a Temple of Reason - a cult organized by Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette (1763-1794), spokesman of the sans-culottes and an avid admirer of the Terror –then a warehouse, prior to being finally returned to the Catholic Church on April 18, 1802.

Under this authority and just as during the Ancien Régime, it is one of the greatest venues of the national history having witnessed the most striking events like the coronation of Napoleon, the baptism of the Duke of Bordeaux, the funerals of some presidents of the Republic, and a Te Deum sung on August 26, 1944 to celebrate the liberation of Paris… Notre-Dame is therefore exclusively a religious building consecrated to the Virgin Mary as Mother of Christ, a Catholic building which is totally French and part and parcel of the national heritage. So the fire begs a number of questions following the collapse of the roof of the cathedral over the choir, the transepts, the transept crossings, and the nave, and the toppling of the spire erected by Violet-le-Duc which burned through and brought crashing down two vaults: that at the transept crossing which crashed on the modern altar.

Worthy of special note here is the fact that the old high altar, the statue of the Virgin Mary erected on a pillar at the transept crossing, all the treasures including the Holy Crown of thorns and artwork distributed throughout the cathedral have not suffered damage...to the surprise of all including experts, and even firefighters.

For some it conveyed a divine message linked to a number of warnings of the Virgin, notably those of La Salette and more recently those of Pontmain. And beside, one is reminded of the words of Saint Pope John-Paul II on June 1, 1980, during Mass at Le Bourget Airport, where he challenged the French by asking them this fundamental question: « so let me conclude by asking you a question: France, Eldest daughter of the Church, are you faithful to the promises of your baptism ? May I ask you: France, Daughter of the Church and educator of peoples, are you faithful for the benefit of man to the alliance with the eternal wisdom? Forgive me for asking this question. I have asked it as the minister does during baptism. I have asked it out of concern for the Church of which I am the first priest and the first servant and out of love for man whose definite greatness lies in God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. »

Notre-Dame is a Marian cathedral which extends the Virgin Mary’s protection to France. Irrespective of its origins, the fire can therefore be seen as a message sent by the Virgin Mary: the destruction of the roof whose wooden structure paid tribute to Joseph the Carpenter would mean that this protection is withdrawn from the French as they have become unfaithful. Hence the destruction of the modern altar viewed as a symbol of the disfigurement of the Church as demonstrated by Guillaume Cuchet in his book Comment notre monde a cessé d’être chrétien – (Seuil). Conversely, if France were to come back to the traditional practice and to the unconditional love of Christ, she would be once again protected. As proof of that is the fact that the choir suffered no damage.

Incidentally how amazing to see at the height of the inferno and then in the blackness of the building, the beam of light that gushed forth from the Cross of Christ carried by the Pieta. Also worth mentioning are the copper statues of the twelve apostles and four evangelists adorning the spire which had been taken down the previous week and were thus preserved. Had they remained in place, given their sheer size and weight, their fall might have caused considerable damage particularly to the vaults and superstructure of the building. As a last striking event, the rooster statue sitting atop the spire, which symbolizes saint Peter, as the first pope and Father of the Church and which contained three major relics (a thorn of the holy crown, relics of Saint Geneviève and Saint Remi), has been found intact, only battered according to the architect. Everyone shall have to draw their own conclusions. The delicate issue still pending is that of the restoration of the building. With hindsight, one can only be amazed at these events and the insight they give us.

Notwithstanding the fact that ever since the first flames, it was officially decreed that the fire was accidental,by the head of the state, by his ministers, by his innermost political circle, and by most of the journalists, it was immediately declared to « reconstruct» (sic) the cathedral over a five year period.

These men are in the know and never use words at random, all the more so as in this particular instance the right verb should have been ‘to restore’ ie., to repair the building so as to bring it back to its initial state whilst preserving its religious destination as a place of Catholic worship. In other words, the head of state has intentionally selected an element of language to prepare the opinion for another project.

As he officially went on the air for six minutes at the Élysée Palace on 16 April, he was extremely precise...if you can read between the lines. The speech was delivered in the same place as on May 7, 2017, the day he won the French presidential elections which he celebrated in the Louvre, the matrix of the French monarchy, at the foot of the pyramid with its eye, and in the same setting as on his official photo: the symbols, the words used are eerily similar.

Although Notre-Dame is indisputably a Catholic place of worship, at no time did the President of the French republic refer to it as such, something which as early as the next morning astounded some journalists – particularly at Sud-Radio during an interview with archbishop of Paris Mgr Michel Aupetit, who diplomatically dodged the issue whilst recalling that the word Catholic is not a rude word but means universal.

Whatever the case may be, Catholics have been warned: as believers they will de facto be excluded from the reflection and action as this building is deemed to belong to all French people, or even to the citizens of the world, as Minister of Home and Religious Affairs Christophe Castaner, said it :« what I know is that Notre-Dame in Paris is not a cathedral but our common »(sic). A peculiar way of saying things but which has the merit of being clear.

The presidential strategy is simple: he entrusts the so-called « reconstruction » (sic) to a retired general, something amazing, imposes the idea of an international architects’ competition (it is legitimate to wander what the project is?) although the cathedral already boasts a skilled Historical Monument Architect, Philippe Villeneuve, with a proven track record.

Clearly the powerful’s project-to-be is too shameful to be mentioned but is nonetheless slated for execution, hence a policy of subjecting any statement by a worried Heritage Services to close supervision – a worry shared by thousands of heritage experts who have just published an Op-Ed in the Figaro website on April 29, urging the President of the Republic to avoid any « precipitation » in the restoration (the right word) and to refrain from bypassing the heritage preservation rules. Paradoxically, international treatises may well come to the rescue of Notre-Dame and to those in favor of a faithful restoration, particularly the Venice Charter (International Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites) signed by France in 1964. Article 9 is quite clear in this respect:

«The process of restoration is a highly specialized operation. Its aim is to preserve and reveal the aesthetic and historic value of the monument and is based on respect for original material and authentic documents. It must stop at the point where conjecture begins, and in this case moreover any extra work which is indispensable must be distinct from the architectural composition and must bear a contemporary stamp. The restoration in any case must be preceded and followed by an archaeological and historical study of the monument».

Henceforth, the head of State, his government, his majority, all intend on passing an exceptional law tailored to the circumstances, which would remove the Notre-Dame worksite from its legal obligations (sic) that are associated with historic heritage, would have to toe the line. However let us not forget that (transgressive by nature as he is and fully iconoclastic in the sense that he dares to contemplate to disfigure a major place of worship for the entire Catholic world) the president is used to depart from the rules on the basis of relativism and globalization. And so anything might well happen and more particularly anything contrary to nature, the unthinkable or the unimaginable …