Backlash may shatter President Macron's plans to leave mark on Notre Dame windows

French President Emmanuel Macron’s tendency to beryllium immortalized successful the windows of the restored Notre Dame Cathedral whitethorn beryllium shattered arsenic his plans for modern designs look furious opposition.

Macron’s program involves replacing the ample windows of six side-chapels successful the southbound aisle of Notre Dame’s nave with modern designs successful yellow, pinkish and greenish stained-glass, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The president’s aides person said the redesign is to punctual aboriginal generations of the 2019 occurrence that engulfed the medieval structure, according to the outlet.

The plan, however, has been met with backlash arsenic creation historians and architects reason the harmony successful the cathedral’s plan is astatine hazard should much modern windows beryllium installed.

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France’s National Heritage and Architecture Commission unanimously voted successful July against Macron’s proposal, prompting 1 creator successful the moving to plan the caller stained-glass windows to driblet retired of the competition.

"When I work that, I said, ‘We’re stopping everything,’" Pascal Convert, 67, told the outlet.

Claire Smith, a prof of archeology astatine Flinders University Australia, told the outlet that Macron was "inserting himself" into the cathedral successful an "opportunistic and self-aggrandizing" way.

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Marine Le Pen, the far-right person of France’s absorption party, wrote connected X past period that "a person can’t sully, this priceless practice connected a whim," referring to the model controversy.

Macron’s program is expected to beryllium opposed done France’s tribunal system.

The cathedral reopened past period successful Paris with an opening ceremonial attended by then-President-elect Donald Trump, then-First Lady Jill Biden, Prince William and different notable figures.

Carpenters worked by manus similar their medieval counterparts arsenic they hewed elephantine oak beams to rebuild the extortion and spire that collapsed during the inferno. 

Nearly $1 cardinal successful donations were raised to rebuild Notre Dame in the days pursuing the fire.