The restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris resumes today, reported the Committee for the restoration of the Cathedral. In full force the work will start after may 4.Work on the restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris after the fire of 2019 was stopped with the beginning of the quarantine in France. The construction could not arrange to comply with all sanitary norms. Now, towards the end of the quarantine, scheduled for may 11, the site, closed since March, is once again alive.For the first time during the quarantine, the Cathedral was reminded of myself two weeks ago on the anniversary of the fire that nearly destroyed the famous Gothic Church. April 15 in the North tower rang, the oldest of the bells of the Cathedral of the Bourdon Emmanuel, cast in 1686. He called the French kings in the days of the coronation, celebrated the end of the First world war and the liberation of Paris, welcomed the dads and noted the death of world communism — the fall of the Berlin wall. The Bourdon Emmanuel — the namesake of the current President of France Emmanuel Makron, who has promised to restore the Cathedral to 2024. Stating that the work is in full underway, authorities were in March before the unwelcome prospect of many more years to see in Paris living reminder of a collapsed political and economic plans. In a crisis situation, restoration of Notre Dame, becomes a symbolic gesture, and everybody understands that.Photo: Gonzalo Fuentes, ReutersСегодня the first team of restorers under the direction of the chief architect, head of the historical monuments of Philip Villeneuve started site preparation for the masters. After the fire of April 15, they are deformed by fire and partially lost stability. To remove them you need to work with them very dangerous. Tower crane, mounted to the right of Notre Dame, is ready to dismantle the 500 tons of metal.The problem in the current environment to assemble at the construction site, masons, carpenters and installers from different parts of the country, because of the honor to restore the Cathedral fought the best craftsmen of France. It has now been decided that at the time they were placed in the Paris hotel, which provided the builders of hotel group Accor. “The first step will be the launch of the construction site in may and the completion of decontamination, because the area is contaminated with lead,— say the representatives of the Committee for the restoration of the Cathedral.— In early June we hope to resume operations associated with the disassembly of the damaged forests. Then the vaults will be cleared and set the stage for the installation of the organ.”Fears that an emergency restoration of the Cathedral will suffer no less than from fire, the Committee for the restoration of the Cathedral considers exaggerated. Works Manager, General Jean-Louis Georgelin promised that the first solemn service will be held at Notre Dame, as scheduled, on 15 April 2024, but the builders are not required to complete by that time. But ��via the first stage, the detainee and quarantine, infection and site lead, it is possible to catch up, especially since the major works in the Cathedral from the very beginning it was planned to start only in 2021.Alexey Tarkhanov, Paris
