INTERVIEW
"The jewel of the jewels" or "the cradle of France", as described by Stéphane Bern, is in flames. Monday late afternoon, a violent fire broke out in Notre-Dame Cathedral. "The images that I saw upset me, they hurt me, they revolt me, I did not think to see Notre-Dame of Paris one day in flames", reacted the animator of television, charged by the executive of a mission on heritage, on Europe 1.
"Maybe I should have told him that I loved him more." "It's a symbol of the nation, it's a symbol of our heritage, it's going up in smoke, it's absolutely dramatic," he says with emotion. To better describe the emotion that is his, Stéphane Bern uses a nice metaphor: "It's like a person we love.We did not pay so much attention and all of a sudden, we see it disappear and we say to ourselves: 'Maybe I should have told him that I loved him more.' "
If he says he does not have "words, just the pain, want to cry," Stéphane Bern however finds the terms to express how dramatic this event is: "I thought she would survive everything." She survived to wars, dramas, revolutions ... And there, in times of peace, while the scaffolding tries to bring a new youth, it sinks into the most dramatic fire. "
"We can not let Notre-Dame de Paris burn." "Our Lady of Paris is constitutive of our history," he believes and "see all this go up in smoke, it is something that is unbearable". "We can not let Notre-Dame de Paris burn, it's our soul, it's our story that burns," laments the host.