This is “a requirement because it is our culture”, emphasized the Minister of Economy. The organ and pipe organ, dating from the seventeenth century
This is “a requirement because it is our culture”, emphasized the Minister of Economy. The pipe organ and organ dating back to the seventeenth century were destroyed.
The state will support the reconstruction of the cathedral in Nantes, which was partially destroyed by fire this weekend, announced Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire. The main focus of the fire was the large organ located at the level of the western facade, at the entrance to the cathedral.
“It is an obligation for the state because it is its property, it is an obligation because it is our culture, so we will present ourselves,” added Bruno Le Maire, recalling that the Prime Minister visited on Saturday.
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the organ and organ, which date from the XVII century, were destroyed. “There is a lot of damage at the level of the organ stand, it’s a pile of charred wood, the stones have exploded,” explained Valérie Gaudard, curator of regional historical monuments and the Regional Authority for Cultural Affairs (Drac) of the Loire region. Like a nineteenth-century painting by Hippolyte Flandrin. “There are things that cannot be replaced, like Hippolyte Flandrin’s table, Saint Clair healing the blind, it is lost forever. It is a great sadness,” said Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot, who came to the area on Saturday.
The fire also destroyed “part of the choir benches and the stained-glass windows of the facade, some of which are the remains of stained-glass windows from the sixteenth century,” added the curator. “Also the area of the transept and chancel was badly affected,” said Linda Gaudard, according to whom “the stones are in a very unstable condition.”
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questions are raised about the origin of the fire, because “three separate points of fire” were observed inside the cathedral. “Between the large organ, which is located on the facade on the first floor, and the other lights, you have almost the entire distance of the cathedral. They are still at a distance from each other,” the prosecutor said on Saturday. Fire experts, the police laboratory of science and technology, are busy trying to determine the origin of the damage, in the context of an investigation open to “arson”.
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The Diocese volunteer, who was heard in police custody, was finally released on Sunday evening. And that “without any procedure,” the prosecutor said, confirming to News Ocean. “He is not involved in fact-finding,” he told the daily. In the state of the case, “there is no element that directly relates to my client in the cathedral fire,” Me Quentin Chabert, the lawyer for the arrested, told reporters on Sunday.
Date of update: 20 July 2020, 05:58
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Source: newstars.edu.vn