MAJOR MAINTENANCE – As a teenager, he climbed the towers of Notre-Dame de Paris. Before the readers of Figaro gathered at Salle Gaveau, the travel writer spoke about the intimate relationship he has with the cathedral, through the intercession of Péguy, Hugo and Huysmans.
Sylvain Tesson notably published Notre-Dame de Paris, oh queen of sorrow (Ecuador, 2019). The show “ Our Lady, queen of sorrow, queen of victory : trips to Notre-Dame by Sylvain Tesson » is played at the Théâtre de Poche until the 30th January.
LE FIGARO. – Notre Dame is a monument with which you have an organic, spiritual, almost medical, and ultimately literary connection. Would you say this monument is the vessel of your existence ?
SYLVAIN TESSON. – At a time when adolescence is looking for an escape from the boredom of childhood, the little urban child that I was found an escape route in the cathedrals: Notre-Dame de Paris, then those which are distributed around the “queen mother” appeared to me like a white brood. I realized that they were ships in the literal sense: large boats that had been becalmed for centuries in the heart of cities. And I understood that these ships were…
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