French Civics Lesson

jdb in AZ

It could end up curdled
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Feb 11, 2011
French President Macron has pledged to rebuild Notre Dame in time for the Paris Olympics in 2024. Very ambitious, and that's probably overly optimistic, but I wish them the best. I'm not understanding why the French government is in charge of a Catholic Cathedral. Some kind of French law, but can someone explain it?
 
From what I heard this morning on the radio, the French government owns Notre Dame and leases it to the Catholic Church for free. I don't think it has anything to do with any French law (at least not any current law), but rather that Notre Dame is, in addition to being a Catholic cathedral, the heart of Paris culturally and architecturally.
my guess is the government took it over at some point in the last several hundred years - for quite a long time France was officially a Catholic country (while England was Protestant)
 



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