On the occasion of the second anniversary of the Notre-Dame fire, a group of Tour de France companions produced a wooden model of the frame as it will be reconstructed identically.
Presented on Thursday via zoom, the model, produced at a scale of 1 / 20th, stands 4,8 meters in height and is made up of some 1.800 parts. They come from a 5,3 m3 cube of Burgundy oak.
To assemble it, it took 3.500 hours of work over eight months for three young companions, Valentin Pontarollo, Armand Dumesnil and Yann Férotin, based in Anglet in the Basque Country. On the blond wooden structure, we recognize, finely carved, the statues and the cock of the arrow.
The model will be exhibited at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris in September during the European Heritage Days, said Pascal Jacob, president of the Restaurons Notre-Dame association, a partner in the project.
The exhibition of the model in Paris should be an opportunity to communicate on the wood transformation process, the carpenter trades, the reproduction of old techniques allied to the creation of future techniques, the difficulty "of finding new ones. hands and to arouse vocations ", underlined Christophe Augeard, president of the Companions of the Tour de France of Anglet, who piloted the project of the three companions.
One of the social missions of the Notre-Dame site, enshrined in the law of July 2020, is precisely to promote and promote artistic professions, such as that of carpenters, as promising careers for young people, in the midst of a crisis. economic due to Covid-19.
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