Bertrand de Feydeau is president of the Fondation des Bernardins and vice-president of the Fondation du patrimoine, which he helped found twenty-five years ago. He returns to the attachment of the French to their religious buildings.
Le Figaro. - As soon as the fire of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Nantes was declared, donations poured in. Is it easier, from Notre-Dame de Paris, to mobilize the general public?
Bertrand de FEYDEAU. - Notre-Dame de Paris is a unique and extraordinary case, which cannot serve as a standard. On the other hand, the tragedy of April 15, 2019 reaffirmed that the safeguarding of heritage should not be the business of others. For Nantes, we knew that the State would take care of the restoration of the building. We therefore proposed a subscription for the restoration of the great organ of the 17th century. Because it had a very specific purpose, the subscription started very quickly and raised 43,500 euros in five days. The people of Nantes and the Britons flew to the aid of a
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