It took Jean-Louis Bidet and his team of highly skilled carpenters nearly two years to transform 1,300 oak trees into the wooden backbone of Notre-Dame.
Racing to restore the Paris cathedral that was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire in 2019, the carpenters used only axes and no modern tools to assemble and install the massive wood frame that supports the roof, almost identical to the 13th-century original.
“We did everything by hand, as they would have in the medieval era,” says Bidet, whose employer Ateliers Perrault specialises in restoring historic monuments.
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