Thule Temple, the city’s jewel and economic burden

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Fragile treasure. About twenty kilometers west of Nancy, the cathedral of Saint-Etienne is a remarkable Gothic building, the scale of which has nothing to envy on the scale of Notre-Dame de Paris; . Property of the commune of Toul, a small medium-sized Lorraine town of 16,000 inhabitants, has not been spared since the Concordat of 1801, the “mother church” of the diocese of Nancy-Toul since it was built in 1221, nor wars, nor fires, nor storms.

Over the past twenty years, the deterioration of the weather has accelerated, devoting significant financial resources to the municipality and its partners, who have only one goal: to preserve this unique heritage, which has been classified as a historical monument since 1840. 2004 More than 6.8 million euros were spent on various projects, such as the renovation of the choir and the aisle or even the roof of the cloister and aisles…