NARRATIVE – For five years, our heritage specialist followed, day after day, all the stages of this pharaonic project. Here she shares anecdotes and her memories of the construction site.
On the evening of April 15, 2019, I was on my way home when my cell phone rang: « Notre Dame is burning we have no one there, file ! », one of the editors-in-chief urges me. Direction the Arcole bridge which, fortunately, is not yet cordoned off by the police headquarters. I reach the square, where dozens of cameras are already in place, watching for a statement from the Paris fire brigade. The telephone network is saturated, crowds gather along the quays. I'll stay until one in the morning. I already had a feeling that I was going to have a long history with the cathedral. Fascinating, often controversial, always political, the subject would take me everywhere to the heart of power, but also all over France to high-end companies.
Because it was in the heart of Paris, and because it had attracted the attention and money of the whole world, the construction site was a magnet for journalists. For five years, we…
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