The press, which had been waiting Monday night to comment on Emmanuel Macron's speech, remains in a state of "amazement" after the fire that ravaged Notre-Dame de Paris. Tuesday the editorialists, this time in phase with the president, already evoke "reconstruction".
On the front page of the national dailies, La Croix has "the heart in ashes", while Liberation soberly evokes "our drama", Les Echos speak of "the tragedy of Paris", the building becomes "Our Lady of Tears" for The Parisian and "Our Lady of Sadness" for Le Figaro .
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About #OurDameFire:
- Fire under control and "partially" put out at 3:30 pm, fire services said
- Cathedral's roof is destroyed
- "We will rebuild Notre Dame," said Emmanuel Macron
- Family Pinault (Kering) is willing to give 100 million euros
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- Liberation (@libe) April 15, 2019A fire that muzzled the president
"The amazement, the sadness go beyond the disappearance of a monument.The shock is immense, it is a common friend who has disappeared," writes Michel Klekowicki in The Republican Lorrain summarizing the general tone. Like many of his colleagues, the editorialist notes that "the flames of Notre-Dame have silenced a President supposed to extinguish the social fire that was brewing in his country."
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In La Croix , Guillaume Goubert acknowledges that "it was not obvious that the President of the Republic gave up an address particularly expected because of a fire in Notre-Dame de Paris". But, he points out, "no political issue could withstand the feeling of consternation that overwhelmed the minds." The editorialist of the Catholic daily is certain, "Notre-Dame de Paris will be reborn from the ashes."
"Emmanuel Macron canceled the speech he was to make at the end of the 'big debate' on this heritage drama, there is no debate," said also Étienne de Montety du Figaro . In L'Opinion , Nicolas Beytout choruses: "What a presidential intervention on television faced a disaster of the magnitude of the fire of Notre-Dame de Paris?" Obviously nothing, and Emmanuel Macron had no problem. alternative than canceling his televised address to the French. "
"The French know how to unite to rebuild"
"The firefighters hoped to have saved the structure of Notre Dame, first necessary step to consider a long reconstruction wanted by all", rejoices Dominique Garraud of Charente Libre . For his part in Le Courrier picard , Bertrand Meinnel reassures himself: "As after the storm on the park of Versailles, other ravages of emblematic buildings or even the recent rampage of the Arc de Triomphe, the French know how to unite to rebuild. " "Everyone already agrees that Notre-Dame de Paris will be reborn from the ashes," also believes Patrice Chabanet in The Journal of Haute Marne .
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Françoise Verna of La Marseillaise also thinks that "if the sadness is immense, the time of the reconstruction will come.Our Lady must rise," says the editorialist of the communist daily. In La Presse de la Manche , Jean Levallois describes "a superb place of worship, which we love, which belongs to all, and which will have to be rebuilt."
In addition, "this thundering cathedral" reminded "fleetingly" to Jean-Michel Helvig of The Republic of the Pyrenees the "towers of Manhattan." "It is the characteristic of these moments of great catastrophe (...) that bring out other images associated, including that of a 'outraged Paris' in such a short time by killers, thugs or a cause unknown incendiary No rational thread connects these situations to each other, otherwise the bitterness for so many unjust blows to a capital that belongs no more to Parisians alone, than Notre-Dame Catholics, "analyzes the columnist.