Should we charge for entry to Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral?

Should we charge for entry to Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral

On April 15, 2019, shortly after 6 p.m., a fire broke out on the Île de la Cité in Paris, Notre-Dame Cathedral burned. A little more than five years later and colossal renovations, the building will reopen its doors at the beginning of December 2024, and those who want to enter may have to put their hands in their pockets. Indeed, Rachida Dati, French Minister of Culture, mentioned a unit price of five euros per visitor, with an objective, according to her, “save religious heritage” of the country.

To debate it :

– Didier Rykner, art historian and editorial director of the online press magazine The Art Tribune

– Pierre Ouzouliasvice-president of the Senate, PCF senator from Hauts-de-Seine, co-rapporteur of a senatorial mission on the state of religious heritage in 2022

– Edouard de Lamazepresident of the Religious Heritage Observatory.

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