A fire starts in front of the Saint-Pierre cathedral in Rennes. A disaster that destroys the roof and the sacristy of the Saint-Paul church in Corbeil-Essonnes, near Paris. An arson attack at Ligugé Abbey, in Vienne. Sad chronicle of an ordinary month in France, the day after a weekend which saw the disappearance, in the flames that damaged the cathedral of Nantes, three treasures of our heritage: the great organ built in 1619, stained glass windows donated by Anne de Bretagne and a masterpiece by the painter Hippolyte Flandrin. Have all the lessons been learned, more than a year after the tragedy of Notre-Dame de Paris? In 2019, the Religious Heritage Observatory (OPR) recorded 16 fires: two cathedrals, 13 churches and an abbey. During the first seven months of 2020, 9 Catholic buildings have already burned down.
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