Death of General Jean-Louis Georgelin, in charge of the reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris
A few days before his 75th birthday, General Jean-Louis Georgelin
died on Friday August 18, after a fall in the mountains. The
high-ranking officer had been responsible since 2019 for supervising the
construction of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris after its terrible
fire.
The general would have died in a mountain accident, in
Ariège, in the town of Bordes-Uchentein. For this St-Cyrien, former
chief of staff of the armies, grand chancellor of the Legion of Honor,
the function of president of the public establishment in charge of the
restoration of Notre-Dame was not the least of the challenges. , faced
with faith in a site of great complexity and rare media and political
pressure.
Jean-Louis Georgelin, the man who carries Notre-Dame on his shoulders
Chosen for his authority, he willingly embodied his role as leader, explaining in an interview with The crossin April 2022 that he didn’t like the word “serene” because “it makes blue flowers and little birds”.
For Jean-Louis Georgelin, born in 1948 in Aspet (Haute-Garonne) to an
officer father and a stay-at-home mother, this mission to rebuild
Notre-Dame was of particular importance. A fervent Catholic although
discreet about his faith, the bachelor was an oblate from a Benedictine
abbey and a member of the Catholic Academy of France.
