the Sources pavilion will be “preserved, moved a few meters”, announces Rachida Dati

“The cancer center will be able to be developed and everyone is a win-win in this story,” says the Minister of Culture.

In Paris, the Pavilion des Sources will be “preserved, moved a few meters”, announced the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, Wednesday January 31 on France Inter. This small two-story stone and brick building belongs to a group of three others which constitute the Curie Institute, founded by Marie Curie, double Nobel Prize winner and first woman to receive it. Its planned destruction, to make way for a five-story building housing “a scientific research center against cancer”had created a controversy.

“With Sylvie Retailleau, the Minister of Research and Higher Education, and the Institut Curie, we have found a solution”explains the mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris. “This building will be moved a few meters, stone by stone. It will be attached to the existing museum to be able to expand it,” she specifies. “Thus, the cancer center will be able to be developed” And “everyone is a win-win in this story”, she adds.

The demolition, at the request of the Institut Curie, was “programmed with the consent of Paris town hall”, recalls Rachida Dati, rival of the mayor of the capital, Anne Hidalgo. At the beginning of January, the then Minister of Culture suspended the destruction of the building. “It was not Mrs. Abdul-Malak who stopped the demolition, it was our mobilization with groups defending heritage,” says her successor. For her, “it is a local and scientific heritage that Paris should be proud of.”