"It is an extraordinary adventure that this reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris", declared General Jean-Louis Georgelin, president of the public establishment responsible for the conservation and restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, who praised the "extraordinary movement of solidarity which does not fall".
Coming from the national forest of Bercé (Sarthe), these eight oaks more than one meter in diameter and more than twenty meters of useful log with a specific curvature are intended for the production of exceptional pieces for the arrow stool. .
The cut timber must then be transported to storage centers set up by the public establishment, to be sorted and to continue drying.
Mid-2022, they will be transported to the carpenters' workshops to be blank assembled before being assembled on the site in 2023.
"And then, we will witness the rise of the arrow in the sky of the Ile-de-France", launched General Georgelin.
General Jean-Louis Georgelin (g) and the boss of the Giants sawmill, Mickael Renaud, December 16, 2021 in Craon, Mayenne JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER AFP
The restitution of the spire of Viollet-le-Duc, whose framework is entirely in solid oak, and the frameworks of the transept and its adjacent spans requires around a thousand oaks, half from public forests, half of nearly 150 private forests.
Forty-five sawmills throughout France ensure the sawing of the 1,000 oaks.
The sawing of oaks selected for the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris at the sawmill of the Giants, December 16, 2021 in Craon, Mayenne JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER AFP
"In a year, we will harvest another 1,000 oaks to redo the framework of the nave and the choir," added Mr. Georgelin.
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