Project leaders at Guédelon Castle tell how their woodwork savoir faire is proving a godsend for mission to restore Paris cathedral roof
. She says the chateau’s blacksmith has been commissioned to make the axes that will cut the wood for Notre Dame, and its carpenters are expected to train others to work on the cathedral.Photograph: Guédelon
“Now, after 25 years, we are the only ones who can understand and are able to do what has to be done, and they discover we have not sold our soul to the devil. Our people will be working on Notre Dame one way or another, but why would we want to go to Paris? We will continue our 13th-century work here.”
“All we heard over and again after Notre Dame burned was that it was not possible to reconstruct the roof as before. There was no wood, no– it was an argument used by those who wanted to modernise. We showed that it can be done and we know how to do it,” he says.
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