Doubt has been cast on a pledge by French President Emmanuel Macron that the restoration of Notre Dame will be completed within five years. Doubt has been cast on a pledge by French President Emmanuel Macron that the restoration of Notre Dame will be completed within five years. “It’s a fundamental step, and very complex, because it’s difficult to send workers into a monument whose vaulted ceilings are swollen with water,” Mr Pericolo told France-Info. A Paris fire official said the towers of Notre Dame would have fallen if firefighters had not deployed massive equipment and acted swiftly. “Should we rebuild the spire envisaged and built by Viollet-le-Duc under the same conditions … (or) give Notre Dame a new spire adapted to the technologies and the challenges of our times?”Press Association

Source: Irish Independent April 17, 2019 12:33 UTC