While she was on Tuesday, right below one of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's grisailles, in the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, the Minister of Culture chose not to take a position on the controversy around contemporary stained glass windows - a project cherished by the Archdiocese of Paris, by 2024.
But on the sidelines of the in-depth visit she made on Tuesday morning to the building site, Roselyne Bachelot clearly spoke out against the creation of contemporary stained glass windows in the cathedral.
"The stained glass windows are an integral part of the monument, and such a decision belongs to the State",
she confided to
Le Figaro
,
"in any case, the grisailles
(painting technique Editor's note)
are classified as historical monuments, and it therefore seems impossible to replace them ”
.
This impossibility, which puts an end to one of the aspects of the interior redevelopment project imagined by a committee assembled by Mgr Aupetit, Archbishop of Paris,
“does not prevent us from doing
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