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Will the Basilica of Saint-Denis regain its historic spire?

2021-11-14T19:27:10.513Z


INVESTIGATION - The city of Saint-Denis (93) has launched a project to reassemble the spire for the cathedral. It arouses a controversy, with historians, who denounce a useless, expensive, and dangerous gesture for the building. The "for" and "against" debate this Monday, at the town hall.


Even if it means losing yourself, you might as well face it face to face. After three weeks of quarrels, through the press, the "pros" and "against" the reassembly of the spire of the cathedral basilica of Saint-Denis, partially dating from the thirteenth century and disappeared in 1847, will be found today. , At the mayor. Around the table, the writer Erik Orsenna, at the head of the sponsoring committee of the project, the architect of Historical Monuments Jacques Moulin, who directs the site, and the historian Maxime L'Héritier, one of the 128 signatories of a bloody tribune entitled:

"No to the arrow project!"

.

The debate, broadcast on the Facebook site and the YouTube channel of the association Follow the arrow!

aims to

"purify, once and for all, misunderstandings and untruths"

, explains Julien de Saint Jores, its president.

They've been anchored for years, though, and might not flatten out in two hours.

A few days before meeting again, Jacques Moulin again denounced

"an orchestrated quarrel"

, and

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Source: lefigaro

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