Tag: Notre Dame de Paris
Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral regains its Chevet Cross
After its large spire and its golden rooster, Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral has found its Chevet Cross. Often described as miraculous, it had not been destroyed by the flames. It…
Notre-Dame de Paris: “A combination of factors made it possible to meet the five-year renovation deadline”
Notre-Dame is reborn from its ashes, five years after a terrible fire at the world-famous French cathedral. Some 250 companies and hundreds of craftsmen, architects and professionals worked on the…
Émile-Armand Benoit, the alchemist of Notre-Dame de Paris
Émile-Armand Benoit is a roofer-decorator. Named Best Worker in France in 2015, he participated in the renovation of Notre-Dame de Paris. Encounter. It is rather unusual, in the context of…
Maryvonne de Saint-Pulgent, former director of heritage at the Ministry of Culture
Ideas An issue dedicated to Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives in Ideas: Maryvonne de Saint-Pulgent, former director of heritage at the Ministry of Culture, associate professor of musicology…
One year before the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris, the choice of lead is controversial
Notre-Dame de Paris will open its doors in one year, to the day, on December 8, 2024. In any case, that is what the French president promised. A titanic project:…
General Georgelin, responsible for the restoration of Notre-Dame, dies in the Pyrenees
General Jean-Louis Georgelin, former chief of staff of the armies and responsible for the restoration of Notre-Dame died in the mountains in the Pyrenees, indicates this August 19 the parquet…
Notre-Dame de Paris: the reconstruction of the spire stool successfully carried out
On April 15, 2019, a tragic fire ravaged Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris during which the flames had consumed the entire spire of this jewel of Gothic art. Four years to…
the stool, base of the new spire, is ready for final assembly
Progress report for the reconstruction of the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral – This week, the wooden stool, that is to say the base on which the spire rests,…
Sarcophagi discovered at Notre-Dame: “A very informative excavation”
/ Podcasts / Guest France By : Clementine Pawlotsky The preventive excavations which began after the fire which ravaged part of Notre-Dame de Paris in April 2019 made it possible…
In the spotlight: the warm welcome of the French to the Blues, back from Qatar
” Thanks to the legends “, title The Parisian Today in France, which echoes this ” last stage of an unforgettable epic “. For Release“ the crowd celebrates […] its…