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| A year after the Notre-Dame fire, restoration is suspended amid Covid-19 lockdown |
| 2020-04-19 |
| [France24] On the first anniversary Wednesday of the devastating blaze that ripped through Notre-Dame Cathedral, there are no builders on site and the scientists involved are working from home. FRANCE 24 investigates how Covid-19 is affecting the reconstruction of the 850-year-old monument. The construction site engulfing Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral stands silent, all restoration and rubble-clearing stopped in its tracks on the first anniversary of the blaze. Before France’s Covid-19 lockdown, around 100 workers were present at the site: engineers, architects, archaeologists and scientists. But since March 16 only a security team guards the entrance while a weekly visit by the public body overseeing the restoration ensures that everything is in order. At 8pm on Wednesday evening the cathedral's great bell rang out across the capital in support of the care workers on the Covid-19 frontline, and to pay tribute to the Gothic landmark's resilience. |
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| #2 Allan works in |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-19 13:13 |
| #1 Remarkable coincidence how St Sulpice burned only the week before. Allan to the snackbar. |
| Posted by: Cesare 2020-04-19 13:07 |