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In Châteaudun, the extravagant church transformation project arouses an uproar

2022-01-05T19:44:20.807Z


STORY - Still consecrated, the abbey church of the Madeleine was promised for sale to turn it into a “second-hand shop”.


It is a modern day parable.

The story of a TV host who, with his notoriety, got it into his head to

"reinvigorate the town centers of small provincial towns which are dying"

.

From a mayor,

"agrégé in economics-management"

, eager for investments for his city.

And of its citizens, who rebel against a

“purely mercantile”

vision of their heritage.

Can we let an antiquarian media buy a church, always open to worship, to transform it into

a "house of second-hand dealers"

?

In Châteaudun, in Eure-et-Loir, the project aroused an outcry among the inhabitants, but also in the diocese, which had

"not even been warned"

...

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Star of the auction program "Affaire concluded", Julien Cohen is preparing to leave France 2 to open,

"almost everywhere in France"

,

"houses of second-hand dealers"

, which would bring together 25 to 30 experts, in the center. city.

"You will never go see a second-hand dealer in the depths of the countryside

," he explains to himself.

On the other hand, if they are grouped together in a beautiful ...

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Source: lefigaro

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