Aurélien Bellanger tours a rebuilt Notre-Dame, book in hand
The novelist publishes 'L'Architecte de Notre-Dame,' a wide-ranging work built around Viollet-le-Duc, and walked Bibliobs through the restored cathedral.
Aurélien Bellanger has published 'l'Architecte de Notre-Dame,' described by Bibliobs (Le Nouvel Obs) as a 'livre-labyrinthe' organized around the nineteenth-century architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, the man who gave the cathedral much of the silhouette it has today. According to the same source, the book's digressions take in Karl Marx, far-right identitarian figures, and Elon Musk.
To mark the publication, Bibliobs accompanied Bellanger on a visit to Notre-Dame de Paris, reopened after its post-fire restoration. Walking through the cathedral, the novelist offered a blunt verdict on what the building has become: 'Ce n'est plus la maison de Dieu, c'est le salon de l'artisanat' — it is no longer the house of God, it is the crafts fair.
The summary gives no further detail on the book's plot, structure or publisher, nor on the rest of the conversation during the visit.
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