Notre-Dame de Paris fixed Thursday on its future interior design almost three years after the fire

Street art and contemporary art alongside biblical paintings? After more than two years of waiting, Notre-Dame de Paris will be set on Thursday in broad outline for its future interior design. French heritage experts must give their opinion on the interior and liturgical redevelopment of the Gothic cathedral, partially destroyed in April 2019 by a gigantic fire that had shocked the whole world. The clergy intends to give it a new lease of life before its reopening scheduled for 2024 and has designed a project that it will present to the National Heritage and Architecture Commission (CNPA), responsible for delivering an opinion. And like everything related to Notre-Dame, admired by 12 million visitors each year, the Anglo-Saxon press has made it their favorite, going as far asto talk again "

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Because contemporary artists like the French father of urban art Ernest Pignon-Ernest, artists Anselm Kiefer or Louise Bourgeois could see their works "

" with those of old masters like the Le Nain brothers or Charles Le Brun, according to

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Light at face height, benches on casters with lights to replace centuries-old chairs, a clean central axis and biblical phrases projected in several languages ​​on the walls, are also part of the project. “

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,” said Senator LR Albéric de Montgolfier, chairman of this commission, to AFP. . As for the choice of works of art, “

” he says. He confirms, like the Ministry of Culture, that "

" have taken place since the start of the project, two and a half years ago, between "

», Concerning the arrangement of works of art on the ambulatory path or the lighting.

The good side of this drama is that we will be able to rediscover Notre-Dame in another way

Albéric de Montgolfier, President of the National Heritage and Architecture Commission

When they find Notre-Dame, tourists and the faithful should enter by the large central door and no longer by the side doors, and benefit from an airy course around a completely revised central axis, going from the nave to the choir, which hosts 2,400 offices and 150 concerts per year. "

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»14 chapels, already very dilapidated before the fire, and some of which were used to store furniture and equipment due to lack of space.

This will make it possible, he says, to rediscover the “Mays”, large altar paintings commissioned each year from great artists, between 1630 and 1707, by the corporation of goldsmiths who offered them to the cathedral.

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Several of them were removed at the time of Viollet-le-Duc, architect responsible for restoring Notre-Dame from 1844. Some were deposited in the Louvre and Arras museums, explains the senator. . "

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", explains Father Gilles Drouin, in charge of this redevelopment by the Archbishop of Paris, Mgr Michel Aupetit (who has just resigned from his functions). Pragmatic, Father Drouin, director of the Higher Institute of Liturgy, is pleased to have found "

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The old chairs as the new benches will be able to go down there according to the needs and the affluence.

He also wishes to make Christianity better understood by a public which does not necessarily know it, by projecting on the renovated walls “

” in several languages.