Update on the Notre-Dame stained-glass windows affair

On 21 November, the ‘artistic commission’ set up by the Ministry of Culture met to choose the artist who would - if all goes wrong - create new stained glass windows for Notre-Dame cathedral. They would replace those designed by Viollet-le-Duc, which had been listed as historic monuments, spared by the fire and restored with donor money.

For the time being, the name of the one selected is being kept a closely guarded secret. Not only because the President of the Republic, who decided on the replacement with the complicity of the Archbishop of Paris, Monsignor Ulrich, no doubt does not want the controversy to spoil the celebrations surrounding the reopening of the building. But also because the operation does not seem simple.
According to our information, the projects of the eight…