It will take "ten to twenty years minimum" to operate the complete restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris, said Tuesday television host Stéphane Bern, responsible for the mission and lotto heritage.
A long inventory of fixtures before a reconstruction. "This time, it is not the money that will be missed, but everything will take time, it will be necessary to make an inventory, the frame, the rosettes, the vault, study how to stabilize and secure ". "Remember that for the cathedral of Reims, it had taken forty years," he said. "Fortunately in France, we have craftsmen, stonemasons" who have the necessary know-how, he still observed.
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"We will have to rebuild the vault, and of course we must redo it identically, we must respect the builders of the cathedral," he said, questioned about the possibility of using metal or concrete, rather than oak wood for the frame.
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