Three months after the fire of April 15, 2019, Notre-Dame de Paris is in full construction. Le Figaro you will discover six personalities who, each in his field, are now working to revive the cathedral from its ashes. In the eyes of the world, the miracle must be accomplished in five years. For those new builders, animated by a passion for Our Lady, every day is now straining towards this goal.

on This day, Didier Durand, the CEO of the company Pierrenoël, specializing in the restoration of heritage and historic monuments in 1844, is a happy man. It is 18 hours, he finished his day of work at the headquarters of his company, rue des Vignoles in the Twentieth arrondissement of Paris.

He thinks of the path travelled since bac pro building won in 1979, to his beginnings as a quantity surveyor, then, in the course of his internships, his growing love for the stones. The pictures of her grand-father, immigrated mason came from Italy, jostle in his …

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