The flames devoured even the framing of Our Lady that the merchants in the temple were riding high already on the drama. A T-shirt with the letters blue white red forming “Our Lady Paris with love”, from the United States, was posted on Ebay on Monday evening at 22: 11, while the flames were still perennial. Other T-shirt bearing the image of the cathedral bruised also appeared on online sites, with slogans such as “We will rebuild!” or “Still standing!” with wings in reference to the phoenix reborn, at a price ranging between 14 and 16 euros.
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On Ebay, in general, everything that relates to the cathedral seems to be to sell. Nothing is this Thursday the 18th, three days after the tragedy, more than 150 products, of the puzzle the model that are proposed. In comparison, there was only a sixty products posted the Thursday before the drama.
A “piece” of the frame
other ads the more unusual, have also been identified, such as that proposing a so-called piece of the roof of Notre-Dame, also posted on Ebay less than 24 hours after the start of the fire. An announcement quickly deleted by the moderators of the website: “our settlement is very clear, the sale of objects, taking advantage of a natural disaster or tragedy is avoided,” points out in The new yorker Delphine Dauba-Pantanacce, head of legal Ebay. Posters, the cathedral in flames, have also been withdrawn from sale.
The website Etsy has the same policy as Ebay to progressively withdraw the sale of anything that could deliberately capitalize on the drama. In contrast, other sites of sale online, such as Zazzle or Amazon seem to well least looking. On Zazzle, for example, one can find a whole array of accessories, ranging from the mug with the apparel for a domestic animal to the effigy of Our Lady, with writing “The fire could only destroy Notre Dame, but not the cross and the message of Jesus shall stand forever”, in other words, “the fire could destroy Notre-Dame, but not the cross and the message of Jesus is immortal.”
The website Zazzle offers a series of accessories with the effigy of the cathedral. Screenshot site Zazzle
on The side of Amazon, finally, there are dozens of T-shirts that you can buy, without any restraint obviously, since one of these garments represents downright the arrow Viollet-le-Duc by train to waver.
Republication of books and medals
The existing products related to the cathedral have also seen their sales increase dramatically. Less than 24 hours after the first eighteen places of the barometer and Amazon were occupied by books in connection with the monument. Without surprise, this is obviously the Victor Hugo novel, which is at the top of all rankings. In the Face of this enthusiasm, the major publishers of pocket-format, such as Folio Classic , Pocket or The Pocket-Book, have decided to reprint the novel. Like Paris is a feast by Ernest Hemingway who had symbolized the events of 13 November 2015, this is a new book that takes the place of refuge for those sidérées by the drama.
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In the best-selling books online is also placed in a few art books such as Notre-Dame de Paris, the grace of a cathedral (“Place des victoires/Clouds, Blue, 2012), or the guide Paris Notre-Dame (Editions heritage, 2014), written by the curator general of the heritage Thierry Crépin.
The radius of audiovisual, it is the famous musical Notre-Dame de Paris derived from the Victor Hugo novel, the big success stories of the 1998 Luc Plamondon and Richard Cocciante, who starts to return to the front of the stage. The DVD of the show currently occupies the ninth place in the top 10 of the best sales of the category on the Amazon site – and the first place of the film musical. On iTunes, the tube Beautiful , the trio of Daniel Lavoie, Patrick Fiori and Garou, occupies the 22nd place. The Time of the cathedrals will hold the 35th place in the ranking. The CD of the show occupies the fourteenth place in the ranking of the albums.
beyond The bookstores and record stores, boutiques, shops and secondhand booksellers of the quays of the Seine are also recipe, such as Georges Montero, who said this Wednesday, at the microphone of France 2, have sold since Monday, “a hundred postcards” in the likeness of the cathedral. “As these are old maps, I will have to find”, he says.
The Paris mint will, in fact, face to the application, edit the medals struck in 2013 for the 850 years of the monument, as well as parts usually aimed at tourists. The profits will revert to the foundation in charge of the reconstruction of the building.
