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One year after the Notre-Dame fire, the impossible commemoration in the time of the coronavirus

2020-04-06T18:06:41.203Z


The reception at the Elysee workers, the master's concert, the musical that was to be given on the forecourt ... Almost all of the events were canceled due to the pandemic.


Should we commemorate the first anniversary of the Notre-Dame de Paris fire on April 15? For several days, the Church, the Ministry of Culture and the public establishment in charge of the reconstruction of the cathedral have been trying to find the right balance between total silence and speaking that could be inaudible.

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In a few weeks, the pandemic has completely changed the situation. Faced with the ravages of covid-19, the imperatives of urgency and compassion have shifted. Not to mention the quest for funding for restoration ... On social networks, the slightest publication on Notre-Dame generates a litany of outraged comments, Internet users believing that the monument has received enough compared to hospitals. Ironically, April 15 is the day that the containment is presumed to have ended. Even if everyone has now understood that the latter would be renewed, it is a safe bet that Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and the media

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Source: lefigaro

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