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Continuity or rupture? The debate rages on regarding the restoration of Notre-Dame-de-Paris. Thursday, December 9, the diocese of Paris presented its redevelopment project, with a contemporary touch that is not to everyone’s taste.
An interior design project for the cathedral that does not convince everyone. The diocese of Paris proposes Thursday, December 9 to reorganize the circulation of visitors. Added to this is the desire to hang contemporary works on the wall, and to project phrases from the Gospel. “We can regret it, we do not regret it: today, there are 12 million tourists”, explains Father Gilles Drouin, responsible for the project.
But a forum comes to criticize this idea, and denounces a “kitsch” aspect and an infidelity to the vision of Viollet-le Duc, the last architect to have renovated the cathedral. “Notre-Dame is a sacred building in the Catholic sense of the term, and it is also, for heritage defenders, a sacred building in the sense that unites us, which tells our story (…). We must keep that in mind. spirit, “says Alexandre Gady, art historian.
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