• The sawing of eight oaks of exceptional size began this Thursday at the Géants sawmill, in Mayenne.

  • They will be used for the reconstruction of the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris, whose framework is entirely in solid oak wood.

It's an event at the Géants sawmill in Mayenne. The sawing of eight oaks of exceptional size, intended for the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris, began on Thursday. "This reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris is an extraordinary adventure", declared General Jean-Louis Georgelin, president of the public establishment responsible for the conservation and restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, who praised "the extraordinary movement of solidarity which does not fall back".

Coming from the national forest of Bercé (Sarthe), these eight oaks more than one meter in diameter and more than twenty meters of useful log with a specific curvature are intended for the production of exceptional pieces for the arrow stool. .

"We are very proud to participate in the reconstruction of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame", confided Mickaël Renaud, owner of the Giants sawmill in Craon.

“My company has been created for two years, I would never have imagined that.

Working with woods of this length that come from the forest of Bercé, planted under Colbert, is a source of pride.

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Assembled on site in 2023

The cut timber must then be transported to storage centers set up by the public establishment, to be sorted and to continue drying.

Mid-2022, they will be transported to the carpenters' workshops to be blank assembled before being assembled on the site in 2023. “And then, we will witness the rise of the arrow in the sky of Ile-de- France ”, launched General Georgelin.

The restoration of the spire of Viollet-le-Duc, whose framework is entirely in solid oak wood, and the frames of the transept and its adjacent spans requires around a thousand oaks, half from public forests, half of nearly 150 private forests.

Forty-five sawmills throughout France ensure the sawing of the 1,000 oaks.

"In a year, we will harvest another 1,000 oaks to redo the framework of the nave and the choir," added Jean-Louis Georgelin.

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