The cathedral was restored again between 19, this time the historic architecture was carefully preserved. Viollet-le-Duc made drastic, controversial modifications to the building and even added a spire. The twenty-year-long restoration was led by a local architect, Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. John Leicester contributed to this report from Paris.It wasn’t until the nineteenth century before the Cathedral was fully restored thanks in part to the writer Victor Hugo, who with his book ‘Notre-Dame de Paris’, made the Parisians realize the cathedral was worth restoring. And soon, it will return to its same place.”
We have the same tools, with the same axes that were used, exactly the same tools. The rebuilt frame “is the same wooden frame structure of the 13th century,” he says. “The objective we had was to restore to its original condition the wooden frame structure that disappeared during the fire of April 15, 2019,” says architect Remi Fromont, who did detailed drawings of the original frame in 2012. Some 1,200 trees have been felled for the work. Unlike in medieval times, it will be trucked into Paris and lifted by mechanical crane into position. The next time it is put together will be atop the cathedral. The dry run assured architects that the frame is fit for purpose. The roof reconstruction hit an important milestone in May, when large parts of the new timber frame were assembled and erected at a workshop in the Loire Valley, in western France. Computers were used in the drawing of detailed plans for carpenters, to help ensure that their hand-chiseled beams fit together perfectly. “It is a way to be faithful to the (handiwork) of all the people who built all the extraordinary monuments in France.”įacing a tight deadline to reopen the cathedral by December 2024, carpenters and architects are also using computer design and other modern technologies to speed the reconstruction. “We want to restore this cathedral as it was built in the Middle Ages,” says Jean-Louis Georgelin, the retired French army general who is overseeing the reconstruction.
The aim is to pay tribute to the astounding craftsmanship of the cathedral’s original builders and to ensure that the centuries-old art of hand-fashioning wood lives on. The use of hand tools to rebuild the roof that flames turned into ashes in 2019 is a deliberate, considered choice, especially since power tools would undoubtedly have done the work more quickly.
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