The Head of State was on the move in Creuse, Friday, September 16, to promote this initiative, launched in 2018, as part of the Heritage Mission.
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“It will last [still] at least five years (…). I hope this decade will have made the thing irreversible,” he said during a trip to Guéret (Creuse), where he was accompanied by his wife, Brigitte Macron, of the Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, and the host Stéphane Bern, head of the Heritage Mission.
“RENOUR” our towns and villages ” With their story “
According to Emmanuel Macron, “this policy for heritage is important, because it allows our towns and villages to reconnect with their history”, as evidenced by the theater of the city he visited.
Plunged in darkness for forty years, the latter will benefit from aid of 500,000 euros in the heritage lotto for its catering and reopening. Built in 1837, Italian theater was used as a cantonment of soldiers during the First World War, then transformed into 1932 cinema until its closure, in 1983.
“We have young people of all ages who will be able to reclaim this place, craftsmen, artists who will be able to work,” said Macron. He notably attended a short representation of Hamlet interpreted by students from Terminale du Lycée de la Ville.
Two hundred million euros collected and 745 sites saved since 2018 2>
In four years, the heritage lottery has brought together 200 million euros and save 745 sites in danger since the first draw, which took place in September 2018, said the Head of State. According to him, the heritage, “is pride, these are projects, it is the life of our territories, and then it is the beautiful. We need it to restore meaning to life”.
After visiting the Italian theater of Guéret, the presidential couple went to Aubusson (Creuse), stronghold of the French tapestry, where he attended a “fall of profession” – symbolic moment during which The wires are cut and the tapestry, unveiled – of conversation with Smauug, an 8 m 2 -sup> tapestry inspired by the work of the British writer J. R. R. Tolkien. The work required nine hundred hours of work from February to August.
“There are professions that plunge into our history. It is an immense French treasure” that must be preserved, has thus argued the President of the Republic, regretting that the “trades of the hand” are sometimes sometimes “Dressed” while these are “fundamental professions, where there are employment prospects”.
