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Stéphanie and Sylvain Tesson about the show on the bill at the Théâtre de Poche-Montparnasse: NOTRE-DAME, QUEEN OF PAIN, QUEEN OF VICTORY Texts by Sylvain TESSON - Read alternately by Samuel LABARTHE, François MARTHOURET, Claude AUFAURE and Christophe BARBIER On April 15, 2019, the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris collapsed while the framework caught fire. What went up in smoke that night? Our illusions? Our arrogance? Nothing but a structure of wood and lead? Five years later, Claude Aufaure, François Marthouret, Samuel Labarthe and Christophe Barbier read the texts that Sylvain Tesson wrote about his connection to the cathedral. The joys that he experienced as a teenager, hanging from its gargoyles. The remedy that, convalescent, he sought in the stairs of its towers. And now, in front of the returned arrow, the question still unresolved: to whom is this prodigious effort addressed? In the words of Paul Valéry: "What would we be without the help of that which does not exist?"