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>>56815016
I just come back from the place with the biggest copper stack i've ever seen. I was allowed to visit the rooftop of the Cathedral of Chartres, one of the oldest gothic cathedral in the world (well, it's not hard they all are here), and to me the most magnificent building ever built. But i'm biaised, i often visited it as a little kid and now nostalgia is kicking in.

Anyway, initially the gothic roof was made out of lead, supported by a huge oaks' frame, called a "forest". But in early 1800s a big fire started and the entire roof went up in ashes. And what's worst is it rained down tons of molten lead all over the church.
King Louis-Philippe ordered the restauration of the roof, but since we were in the early days of the industrial revolution, he wanted to flex on the british, and asked for the frame to be made out of.. cast iron. And it was decided to use copper instead of lead for the new roof, which is very pretty.
So i just saw 5200 sq meters of enormous copper tiles 60m above the ground. 11,000 tiles precisely. Quite a living dream for a copper enjoyer!