Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday saluted the vivacity of the debate launched on the reconstruction of the spire of Notre-Dame after his fire, which shows that France "is not lost".
"A country where we can debate for months whether the arrow of Notre Dame must be of such and such a form is a country that is not lost," said the head of state in celebrating the 60th anniversary from the Ministry of Culture.
"To purge this debate would be a moral, political mistake"
The controversy over this arrow, destroyed by the fire of the cathedral of Paris on April 15, "shows the spring that is ours" in this country "which is not simply a society of scattered, free individuals, seeking to produce and consume, but a nation that stands with a history, conflicts, a common imaginary, "he added.
"Purge this debate would be a moral fault, political," said Emmanuel Macron, while experts are divided on the opportunity to rebuild the spire of the cathedral to the identical, as designed by the architect Viollet- the Duke in the nineteenth century.