Heritage: the artisans of the Notre-Dame construction site obtain ancestral tools from Bièvres

“We worked directly with the carpenters who are working on this site,” reveals Jean-Pierre Parigot, president of the Association of Friends of Tools (ADO), organizer of the fair. For example, we lent doloires, a large ax with a short handle, to Rémi Desmonts, the art master who built the framework of the nave of the cathedral. He is the only one in France specialized in medieval ax squaring techniques. He came to see us because we were the only ones to keep traditional dolores having already been used, with a beautiful shape and having demonstrated good function. »