Newsdeck: Over $560m pledged to restore Notre Dame cathedral in Paris By Al Jazeera
Notre Dame cathedral, an outpouring of financial support has seen private donors pledging more than half a billion euros towards the restoration of the Parisian landmark.
Francois Pinault, the billionaire CEO of Kerig group, offered 100 million euros towards repairs, while his rival in luxury goods, CEO of the LVMH conglomerate Pierre Arnault, later pledged 200 million euros .
Offers of practical assistance have flooded in from across Europe: Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has extended the service of his country’s reconstruction experts, famed for their restoration of Warsaw buildings razed to the ground in World War II; while the York Glaziers Trust in Britain, which restored the windows of York Minster cathedral when it was gutted by fire in 1984, has volunteered its expertise.
“What has burned is essentially the roof structure. Two-thirds of the roof, which is basically wooden carpentry and extremely important historically because it was still the original woodwork.” Victor Hugo bemoaned its pitiful neglect in the 1830s, but decades later it was given new life as its flying buttresses were renovated and a new wooden spire was installed.“It’s simply going to be a matter of a lot of time and a lot of money,” said Robert Bork, an art historian specialising in Gothic architecture,” told Al Jazeera.
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