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Emmanuel Macron will go to Notre-Dame de Paris on Friday, where he will pay tribute to General Georgelin, who supervised the reconstruction of the cathedral until his death last summer.
France Télévisions – Culture Editorial
Published on 06/12/2023 12:41
Reading time: 1 min The scaffolding around the new spire of Notre-Dame de Paris (December 6, 2023) (MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP)
Emmanuel Macron will pay tribute on Friday December 8, on the Notre-Dame de Paris construction site, to Jean-Louis Georgelin who died this summer, whose name will be “engraved in the wood of the arrow”, said the Elysée on Wednesday, which must also decide on a request for the creation of new stained glass windows.
During a visit planned one year before the reopening for worship and visiting this masterpiece of Gothic art, President “will be able to approach the arrow” and on this occasion, “he will pay special tribute to General Georgelin”who supervised the construction site since the fire which hit the monument on April 15, 2019, until his death last summer, it was reported at the Elysée. “The name of the general will be engraved in the wood of the arrow to mark the decisive role that this great servant of the State will have had in the management of the project”, we added.
Contemporary stained glass windows for Notre-Dame?
Emmanuel Macron “will also be able to respond to the letter he received from Monseigneur Urich, Archbishop of Paris, who proposed to him to create contemporary stained glass windows for a certain number of side chapels of the nave, in order to commemorate in the body of the cathedral itself this very unique period which was that of the fire and the reconstruction”, according to this same source.
In this letter, which AFP obtained, Mgr Ulrich states: “I hope that one day soon we will be able to see some new stained glass windows (…) in one or another chapel. Not to talk about the fire”but for to say “this is what our time, and after this ordeal, wants to offer as a contribution to the history of this church and of Paris”.
After phase 1 (safety after the fire) and phase 2 (restoration itself), phase 3, which will include restoration work scheduled before the fire, “should be ‘completed’ by the end of the decade, 2029 or 2030”specified the Elysée.
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