- The Sources pavilion in the garden planted by Marie Curie
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13/1/25 – Heritage – Paris, Pavilion des Sources – We talked a lot about The Art Tribuneof the scandal of the Institut Curie, which demolished an Art Deco building (see the news item dated 20/9/23), and which was preparing to do the same thing for the pavilion of the Sources of Marie Curie (see the articles ). Significant mobilization, and in particular the action of Baptiste Gianeselli, widely reported in the media, made it possible to avoid the demolition. But if the building – which was initially to be “moved”, which was obviously not credible, will be well preserved, it will be absorbed by a new building, out of scale, which will distort the whole desired by Marie Curie, and will greatly densify this place placed in co-visibility with the Pantheon.
Nothing is therefore settled, and the heritage protection associations SOS Paris et Sites & Monuments have decided to appeal against the building permit for this massive project, which would further distort the capital.
As they specify, moreover, this opposition does not concern the project to expand the Institute, necessary for research, but rather the place they have chosen to build it. There is no obligation to do so in Paris, especially in a historic district: as the associations point out, “ this project could in fact be carried out elsewhere (remember that the Institut Curie is already present outside Paris), under excellent conditions, such as on the site of the new Paris-Saclay Cancer Cluster (PSCC), located in Villejuif, project supported by the State, of which the Institut Curie is a partner and where space is available. » This seems so obvious that it is difficult to understand the obstinacy of the Institute, except to imagine that the suburbs would not be good enough for it.
Let us remember that the descendants of Marie Curie, notably today her granddaughter Hélène Langevin-Joliot, also a physicist, have always opposed the denaturation of this site. This was created by the double Nobel Prize winner and she was very attached to it, as the associations say in their press release. The contempt that the institution that bears his name seems to have for its founder is completely unbearable.
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