TOULOUSE, France - A former French army chief in charge of restoring Paris's emblematic Notre-Dame cathedral following a devastating 2019 fire has died during a mountain hike, prosecutors told AFP on Saturday.
TOULOUSE, France - A former French army chief in charge of restoring Paris's emblematic Notre-Dame cathedral following a devastating 2019 fire has died during a mountain hike, prosecutors told AFP on Saturday.
A mountain rescue team deployed to the Mont-Valier peak"discovered the body of a man who has been formally identified as General Georgelin", a spokesman said, adding that an accident was the likely cause. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo hailed Georgelin on the same social media platform for creating"the human and organisational conditions for successfully completing the reconstruction of Notre-Dame".
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