Solène Delinger 2:43 p.m., December 8, 2021
More than one hundred personalities, including Stéphane Bern, Alain Finkielkraut, and Anne-Elisabeth Moutet criticized the project proposed by the diocese of Paris for the renovation of the interior of the Notre-Dame building, in a column published jointly by the magazine "La Tribune de l'Art" and the newspaper "Le Figaro", this Tuesday.
Invited to the microphone of Europe 1, the editorialist Anne-Elisabeth Moutet returned to this position.
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"What the fire spared, the diocese wants to destroy", indignant a hundred personalities on Wednesday in a forum against the renovation project of Notre-Dame de Paris, and published jointly by the magazine
La Tribune de l'Art
and the newspaper
Le Figaro.
Among the signatories, Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, columnist for the
Daily Telegraph
. Invited to the microphone of Europe 1, she explains why she is opposed to the reconstruction of the cathedral, ravaged by a fire on April 15, 2019.
"The diocese of Paris has a project to do what it calls a catechumenal journey inside the cathedral, so as to explain Catholicism to 12 million tourists, with animations, projections of words in different languages on the walls of the cathedral. This is certainly something that has its place in a museum. But not in a cathedral, "said Anne-Elisabeth Moutet.
The columnist, fiercely opposed to the Notre Dame renovation project, was shocked by the vocabulary used by his supporters in an article in the newspaper
Le Monde
.
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The fire was an "injury"
"There was a very good, very informed article in
Le Monde
. The supporters of this reform explained that it was a good opportunity and that it would be a 'capitulation' if we made Notre-Dame identically. C 'is a fire that has been experienced by Parisians, by the French and indeed by the whole world as being a horrific injury and accident. The idea of saying it is a good opportunity is shocking, as is the 'idea of making a Catholicism for Dummies inside a church where works of art have accumulated for 800 years ".
For Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, the people who witnessed the fire "did not think that it would then be to modernize".
"The cathedral speaks for itself"
"The cathedral is an extraordinary monument. It speaks for itself. This project seems absurd and frankly not necessary", she affirms at the microphone of Europe 1. The signatories of the platform defend the organization and the conception of the place designed by Viollet-le-Duc, today "reduced to nothing" by the diocese of Paris.