Notre-Dame de Paris revealed to the world on Friday its “brilliance” regained five years after the devastating fire of April 2019, thanks to a final site visit by Emmanuel Macron. The French president prides himself on having met his “insane challenge” of reopening in five years.
“It’s sublime,” exclaimed the Head of State upon discovering the reconstructed cathedral in all its whiteness and length, during a stroll.
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“It is much more hospitable with this blond stone”, cleaned of the dirt accumulated over the decades, he added, assuring the speakers that they could “be proud”. The work made it possible to clean up the dirt accumulated over decades.
“You see the cathedral as you have never seen it”, “five years after the vision of desolation”, commented Philippe Jost, the head of restoration, during the visit.
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The first photos from the Magnum agency were published Friday by Le Parisien, and an unofficial video circulated on X.
In a tour of around ten stations, from the square to the framework, including the nave, the transept crossing and the Saint-Marcel chapel, the visit has been designed to show the main achievements of this titanic project.
Quite a symbol, the stop at the base of the spire, reconstructed identically to that of Viollet-le-Duc which collapsed on April 15, 2019 on mondovision, raising a wave of global emotion.
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Reopening on December 7 and 8
A big week before the reopening with great fanfare and the return of the public, the weekend of December 7 and 8, the president writes, in a document distributed to the media this week, that this “construction of the century” constituted a ” challenge that many considered senseless and that we will meet.”
All 2000 people who contributed to the work were invited, more than 1300 of whom were present, wood, metal and stone craftsmen, scaffolders and roofers, campanists, gilders, sculptors and even architects. Patrons are also in the spotlight, while the construction project of the century, which cost some 700 million euros, was financed exclusively by donations.
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In a bad position politically, Emmanuel Macron is banking heavily on this meeting, which he has elevated to the rank of “French pride” with the successful Olympic Games last summer.
The flames, the causes of which have still not been determined, had notably ravaged the roof and the frame of this masterpiece of Gothic art from the 12th century, which is among the most visited monuments in Europe.
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