Emmanuel Macron will speak “on the square” of the cathedral

Five years after the terrible fire that ravaged the cathedral, Notre-Dame de Paris will finally be reborn. A liturgical ceremony is planned there for next Saturday, December 7, the day of the inauguration of this thousand-year-old jewel, before a mass the next day. Two events to which Emmanuel Macron will attend, to praise what the Élysée calls “a form of building regeneration».

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Aware of the international scope of this meeting, which will be scrutinized throughout the world, Emmanuel Macron intends “deliver a fairly short speech intended to indicate how he designed this restoration“. He will take the opportunity to make “tribute to transmission”, and greet “the people of builders» which made it possible to put the building back on its feet in record time.

“Thank everyone who contributed to saving Notre-Dame”

But, contrary to what some of his interlocutors suggested, the President of the Republic will finally speak “on the square», which was confirmed this Wednesday by the Archbishop of Paris Monseigneur Ulrich. Way of not breaking the law of 1905, which provides for a strict separation between Church and State; nor to tradition, which dictates that political speeches are held outside places of worship.

In his speech, the Head of State “will thank all those who contributed to saving Notre-Dame and restoring it”, people around him know. Thinking both of the countless artisans mobilized, of the private patrons who responded, but also of the late General Georgelin who, “of the many titles he had, took his greatest pride in being the general of Notre-Dame».