On April 15, two years exactly after the fire in Notre-Dame de Paris, the Saint-Pierre church in Romilly-la-Puthenaye (Eure) went up in smoke - this time without making the headlines. The fire started in the early morning, in the bell tower, without knowing exactly where it came from. Badly extinguished candle? Electrical short-circuit, despite the repair work carried out in 2009? Anyway, today almost nothing remains of this 16th century rural church, located in the center of the village.
“Everything is gone, including the furniture and the oak frame. From now on, when you arrive in the village, you come across the ruins of the church ”
, laments Jean-Bernard Juin, mayor of Romilly.
For lack of priests, the church organized four services per year, apart from weddings and funerals.
And opened during Heritage Days.
"It was part of our landscape and our heritage,"
adds the mayor, who has seen
"people cry in the face of the disaster"
.
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