One month after the tragedy of Notre Dame: employees under criminal investigation and controversy around its reconstruction – 05/15/2019

Our Lady is a fragile old lady, but one month away from her voracious fire. A metallic corset maintains its dignity and gives it security. French police he turned it into a criminal investigation scene know how was the fire that traumatized the French and the world.

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For the first time in his history, he was isolated from his followers, surrounded by stringent police controls and insurmountable barriers. The police were able to enter the scene ten days ago for security reasons. The cathedral was not yet stable. Many tests have been erased by the water and the 400 firefighters who fought the fire, as well as the workers who stabilized it. The search for evidence will be difficult and precise.

The workers who worked in the previous restoration work on the roof, the 69 employees of the cathedral, do not have the right to speak. In France, suspects are entitled to a fair trial, without prejudice, and today they are all.

An army of carpenters, restorers, master glbadmakers, blacksmiths, masons and specialists work around the clock to consolidate a Gothic building on foot. but damaged by a temperature of 700 degrees, firefighters water and rain. Securing it will take four months.

A Notre Dame iron under the old cathedral to hold it, so that the rest of his dome does not fall. The "forest", the carpentry of thousands of cubic meters of wood, does not exist anymore. The fire devoured her in a few hours. The metal structure was already there since the start of the restoration work, which could be the cause of the fire and resisted. Now it has been strengthened. The calcined beams in the vault show the strength of the flames.

Geometry engineers and surveyors have made an emergency diagnosis with a laser scanner and drones. Arte Graphique et Patrimoine (AGP) produced a digital model of this carpentry before the fire. It is the same company that has now been hired by the authorities to implement new measures, produce comparative documents, which will facilitate a restoration that is generating divisions between traditionalists and modernists today. This work will help the police find the source of the fire.

A miracle in the tragedy. The rector of the cathedral, Bishop Patrick Chauvet, named it when he entered the cathedral with Emmanuel Macron and found himself face to face with the destruction. He verified that the Virgin Mary was still standing, the altar was intactlike the statue of Piedad and the glorious cross installed by Cardinal Lustiguer. The crown of thorns of Christ and part of the treasure had been saved and transferred to the Louvre.

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This is the moment when he began to think of "a refuge" to continue to receive the faithful, the 13 million tourists, the shop that keeps them and continue to give work to 69 employees. He was born the "ephemeral Notre Dame", in front of this wounded and gothic mbad, which immediately authorized his neighbor, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo. As soon as the criminal investigation is complete, its construction will begin.

To safeguard and preserve the treasures of the cathedral, a college of the best workshops and specialists of France was created. They came from all over the country to insure them. One by one, the master glaziers removed from the cathedral the windows not damaged by the fire, although they may present cracks due to thermal shock. The statue of the Virgin was protected by the workers. Britain has offered its experience in the restoration of medieval buildings. France and the kingdom have great specialists in the stability of the structures of the Middle Ages, they know how to maintain and preserve the works to be preserved with the most modern technologies.

Notre Dame's career will take years and give jobs to thousands of people. The specialties and trades that his repair requires A new generation of carpenters, stone specialists, roofers and bricklayers transformed into experts in historical heritage will have to be trained. The Companions of Duty, who take care of the formation of the historical heritage, have already warned that they do not exist: it would be necessary to train the young people and the refugees, who will thus be able to integrate fully from the cathedral to French society.

Saddam Mohamed, a Sudanese refugee, is ready. He will do a history technician training. "I want to be part of the reconstruction, and I can tell my children," Dad helped rebuild Our Lady, "he said.

The debate on restoration began after donations will reach $ 1,000 million. The times of politicians and the defense of heritage are not the same. The decision of President Macron to finish it in five years is an impossible dream, opposed by heritage experts. As much to his desire for "contemporary gesture" as to replace the needle of Viollet the Duke who, with his fall, caused great damage to the chapel and the stability of Notre Dame. At least 1,700 specialists published in Le Figaro A note: "Let historians and experts have the time to diagnose before deciding on the future of the monument," they asked. It was after Macron appointed a former chief of the armed forces as a protector of reconstruction.

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The stones must be dried to be safe as well as the wood. Diagnostics will take time. The steps to follow will last from two to five years and then launch a restoration, throughout at least 15 years old.

"Let's wait for the result of the investigation.As long as we do not know what happened, you close your mouth," recommended Philippe Villeneuve, architect in charge of Notre Dame.

In the cathedral, priests, organists and security agents follow his advice. No one is speaking. Nobody talks about responsibilities. Everyone believes that the church rebuilding exception law announced by Macron is a dangerous way of dealing with restoration procedures.

Notre Dame belongs to the state, like all French cathedrals prior to the twentieth century, which were confiscated by the law of secularism in 1905. They have never allocated enough money to maintain them. French dogmatic secularism has emptied Catholic churches, Christianity has disappeared from public life. So much so that the French press sought to eliminate the religious significance of the cathedral to transform it into the symbolic representation of the heart of the nation in full blaze.

The Duck EnchaineThe French satirical weekly revealed that the Ministry of Culture, which had hired the company Elytis responsible for the security of the temple, had decided to remove one of the two security guards, who would remain on site 24 hours per day. the 2015. When the alarm of the computer revealed the fire, at 18:20, in the afternoon, this simple guard got up but found himself in the wrong place. He did not find the fire. 35 minutes were lost when the oaks on the roof began to burn and the flames rose to the sky. Right there, they called the fire department. Only 3.4% of the culture budget is devoted to heritage. The old French churches are in a very bad state, abandoned to their destiny and that of the benefactors.

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Donors!. Its 1,000 million dollars in 48 hours divide France and the French who, unlike the Americans, have a terrible relationship with money and with those who own it. It is the Pinault, Arnault, Bouygues, who prefer to give the stones to the poor and whose name is reflected in one of the two towers of Notre Dame. Companies that have donated are accused of doing so to improve their image and benefit from their taxes. The pressure made them give up this advantage. Every major supermarket in France offers its customers a donation to Notre Dame when paying the bill. 90% of people accept it.

The communion between Notre Dame and the French goes beyond religion. This Gothic cathedral of the Middle Ages is at the heart of the history of France for its inhabitants.

According to legend, Pope Alexander III himself laid the foundation stone in 1163. It was only at the end of the fourteenth century that the reason for his "mixture" Roman and Gothic was completed. Every century, he was going to print his DNA to the Great Lady. St. Louis recovered the crown of thorns of Christ in his crucifixion from the hands of Venetian bankers and brought it to Our Lady. The holy king built the Sainte-Chapelle to preserve the precious treasure. Henry VI of England is crowned king of France, an impostor in the eyes of the French, in the midst of a 100-year war of religion. Mary Stuart of Scotland and King Francis II of France are married there. Napoleon Bonaparte was consecrated emperor by Pope Pius VII. Victor Hugo declared his love for the cathedral in his novel Notre Dame de Paris. Esmeralda and Quasimodo have become their icons until today.

In 1844, the architect Eugène Viollet Le Duc embarked on the restoration work of the cathedral. It imposes the controversial needle, whose fall with its 150 tons of lead has weakened Notre Dame today. The bells ring the day of the liberation of Paris during the Second World War. Cardinal Suhard welcomed General Charles de Gaulle and celebrated the victory with a La Marseillaise final in his medieval organ.

The spirituality of Notre-Dame transcends beliefs to take root in the history of France. Presidents de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou and François Mitterrand were honored at his death. A tribute to the victims of the terrorist attacks perpetrated in Paris on November 13, 2015, whose bell rang for 15 minutes, touched everyone. The jihadist terrorist threat is now targeted. Today, Yellow Vests, in a divided country and in deep crisis, have the prohibition to manifest themselves at Notre Dame. The grande dame of Paris is contemporary with its 900 years. Fire will be another chapter of his long life.