The definitive restoration works of the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral, one of the matrices of the religious and cultural foundation of our civilization, have been delayed and must extend more than a year After his solemn reopening on December 8, in the presence of Donald Trump and the absence of Pope Francis.
Two months after the reopening, at the beginning of last February, it was discovered that the Notre Dame Towers were victims of an “invisible pathology”, in need of a special treatment. These works must be extended to summer or the fall that comes.
It was thought that the restoration of the interior of the cathedral was “practically finished.” Two months after reopening, another problem of a certain gravity. The Association Sites & Monuments has just submitted an appeal before the Administrative Court of Paris, denouncing the unfinished project of Restoration of its historic stained glass.
After a long process of consultation, which lasted during the last two years prior to the official reopening, President Emmanuel Macron and the Archbishop of Paris, Monsignor Laurent Ulrich, negotiated the installation of stained glass windows again wedge“Modern”, “contemporary”, to replace the stained glass windows during the fire of April 15, 2019.
It was about giving a “contemporary note” to the greatest of historical, national monuments. Aspiring to carry out such a project, the agency that directs the unfinished reconstruction signed a contract with Claire Tabouret, an artist, 43-year-old French painter, resident in Los Angeles (California), chosen to build future stained glass windows.
The news fell very bad among supporters to restore Notre-Dame respecting the original stained glass model, installed by Eugène Villet-Le-Duc, at the end of the 19th century. Presenting one complaint Before the Administrative Court of Paris, the Association Sites & Monuments opens a process unpredictable and disturbing. The court will take its time to issue a sentence. It is not clear if they can present resources, in any case … Meanwhile, the Restoration of Notre Dame will be lacking a “detail” capital. The new windows will not be able to install them until the end of 2026, two years after the great solemn reopening.
The 860,000 visitors who have been able to enter Notre Dame, since their reopening, have been able to verify, on the other hand, that the cathedral remains surrounded by Metal walls With wires of thorn and numerous Large cranesto continue works of very diverse nature, from the roof to the entire architecture of the east facade of the cathedral.
Those metal walls, wires of thorn and bright red cranes do not discourage thousands and tens of thousands of tourists who visit the surroundings of Notre Dame daily. Among the Visitors tailsthat they must wait between one and two hours to enter the cathedral, tourists less interested in the interior are photographed so happy to the millenary stone walls and the very contemporary cranes of the highest national technology.
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