This Friday, November 29, 2024, Emmanuel Macron is making his last site visit to Notre-Dame de Paris before its official reopening on the weekend of Saturday, December 7 and Sunday, December 8, 2024.
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On this occasion, several artisans will receive a “Notre-Dame diploma”, attesting to their professional commitment and the quality of their skills. Among them, Remy Desmonts, his son Loïc Desmonts and Lou Karoui, from Atelier Desmonts based in Eure, will be in the spotlight. These three sharp profiles each brought their specialty to the long reconstruction of the cathedral.
Thus, Rémy Desmonts is the “green wood” referent for the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral construction site. “He was responsible for choosing all the trees which now constitute the new framework of the famous monument. He also selected and trained the team of carpenters present on the site so that they could master the squaring and cutting techniques used in the Middle Ages during the construction of the cathedral. traces the Eure prefecture in a press release.
Loïc Desmonts stands out for his production “prototypes of axes and doloires, tools which were specifically manufactured for this titanic construction site”. As for Lou Karoui, the apprentice has “was responsible, in collaboration with the National Forestry Office, for monitoring the supply of wood for the nave and choir of Notre-Dame Cathedral”.
Construction of 57 farms
The family carpentry and joinery business was created in 2007 by Rémy Desmonts and is distinguished by its manual restoration techniques of historic monuments. Since the beginning of 2023, carpenters have been carving oak trees 80% supplied by the National Forestry Office (ONF) in their 1,000 m workshop.2 in Nassandres-sur-Risle.
The craftsmen thus manufactured no less than 57 trusses “14 meters wide and 10 meters high” which will replace those destroyed during the fire which ravaged part of the building on April 15, 2019. These large triangular wooden structures are made according to the original techniques, with beams squared with an ax and assemblies made without metal part. A ” pride “ for the workshop which has 10 employees.
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