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Re:Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris by MR4D on Monday April 15, 2019 @03:15PM (#19668028)
"The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does" [0]

Sydney J. Harris

[0] - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sydney_J._Harris

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Re:Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris by kaoD on Monday April 15, 2019 @03:32PM (#19668159)
That seems like a feel-good post-hoc euphemism (but ok, I accept that language evolves).

Either way: how did France (the nation) make any of these artworks? You could argue it was made by anyone in the spectrum ranging from "the artist" to "the humanity". Stopping at France seems arbitrary and a bit... nationalistic.

If any institution "made" them, it's the Catholic Church, not France.

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Re:Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris by MR4D on Monday April 15, 2019 @05:14PM (#19668988)
Given that France is "overwhelmingly Roman Catholic" [0], your last statement could be considered interchangeable. Perhaps (and I'm not French, so I don't know) many of the people consider them to be one and the same. Either way, it's a reasonable point that you made.

[0] - https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

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Re:Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris by kaoD on Monday April 15, 2019 @05:57PM (#19669283)
I see what you mean too, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%C3%AFcit%C3%A9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dechristianization_of_France_d...

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