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Paul Myers

Fury over Macron's plan to remove undamaged stained glass windows at Notre-Dame

Notre-Dame Cathedral is scheduled to reopen on 8 December 2024 after more than five years of restoration work that followed a fire on 15 April 2019. AFP - JULIEN DE ROSA

Architectural conservationists are up in arms over plans to take out stained glass windows undamaged during the fire at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris nearly five years ago and replace them with new designs.

They say that Emmanuel Macron's proposal to have Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's windows removed from six of the seven chapels on the south aisle and for fresh pieces to be inserted would be nonsensical.

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