It was by accident one day entering the church of Saint-Pierre, in Auxerre, that Alexandra Sobczak, a former antique dealer, decided to dive into the deep end.
“The church was in a very bad state, someone had to do something,”
she said simply.
Six years and the creation of Urgence Patrimoine later, her husband ended up demanding that she put down his phone during lunch, so that the cause did not overlap (too much) on their private life.
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Endowed with a certain temperament, Alexandra Sobczak now fights against the destruction of small heritage, which does not always have the eye of the public authorities.
Suffice to say that the task is vast, and vaguely thankless, as it is difficult to interest the French in the future of the castle of Westhove (62) or the monument of Joan of Arc in Bonsecours (Seine-Maritime).
"Even if I have often lost, the fight is always worth fighting
,
" she
says.
Let us pay homage to him: among other things, the fate of the Saint-Joseph chapel,
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