Rebuild the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris identically? For Archbishop Aupetit, Archbishop of Paris, interviewed at the microphone of France Info, the scenario is quite plausible. "A majority is emerging" in this sense, he said. And "it will be decided very quickly".
If Archbishop Aupetit is not a “stakeholder” in the final decision, as he recalled, his words only confirm what everyone had anticipated: despite the wish expressed by Emmanuel Macron in the aftermath of the fire , there will be no international architectural competition for this spire. And there will undoubtedly also be no "major consultation of the French", announcement repeatedly repeated by the Minister of Culture, Franck Riester.
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Quietly but surely, the Covid-19, or more precisely confinement, is putting an end to the idea of a contemporary gesture on Notre-Dame de Paris. Neither the Ministry of Culture nor the public establishment for reconstruction for Notre-Dame were very favorable
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