Notre Dame Stained-Glass Dispute Enters New Legal Phase
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Notre Dame stained-glass dispute enters new legal phase
The long-running controversy over the replacement of six 19th-century stained-glass windows at Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral appears to be entering a new — and potentially decisive — phase.On April 20, the permit to remove and replace the windows in one of the nave’s southern chapels, designed under Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, the architect behind Notre Dame’s iconic spire, was publicly posted on the cathedral’s railings, triggering an almost immedia…
The president of the association Sites and Monuments announces an appeal against the replacement of the stained glass windows of Viollet-le-Duc by contemporary creations of Claire Stool. The association denounces an infringement of the heritage.
We had announced this, and this has materialized today: Sites & Monuments, to which the other association SOS Paris has joined, has just filed the applications before the judge of the referenda and to the administrative court against the project of replacement of the stained glass windows of Notre-Dame. Recall that the judge of the referenda must decide on the urgency of suspending the works, the latter having already begun and threatening the s…
The display of the authorization of works for the laying of six contemporary stained glass windows at Notre-Dame de Paris revives a sensitive heritage controversy. The bays concerned, located in six chapels on the south side of the nave, must replace 19th-century stained glass windows associated with the restoration of Eugene Viollet-le-Duc. However, these windows had not been destroyed by...
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