Didier Rykner is a French journalist and art historian. Committed to the defense of heritage, he regularly publishes his investigations and analyses on the website La Tribune de l'art. He publishes La Disappearance de Paris, published by Les Belles Lettres.
Spared by the fire that ravaged the roof of Notre-Dame, the gardens of the cathedral are now threatened by a project of the mayor of Paris. We remember that Anne Hidalgo had, the day after the fire, said that the city would give 50 million euros for the restoration of the monument. A promise reneged - one more - the elected deciding to allocate this colossal sum, not to restorations of Parisian churches that would nevertheless need it, but to this project of redevelopment of the surroundings of the monument.
More than 81% of the participants in the "consultation" organized on this occasion demanded for the square Jean-XXIII which borders the cathedral to the east and south, that it be restored to its historic state. Created...
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