Friends of the Basilica Conference

Every year, the Friends of the Basilica organise a scientific symposium.
Saturday's presentations will focus on architectural issues. Sunday morning's field trip, devoted to the churches of Poisson and Marcigny, will focus not only on architecture but also on the evolution of decoration, using as an example the memory of the abbot of Cluny, Hugues de Semur, whose birth is being celebrated this year. It will be prepared at the end of the day on Saturday by the presentation of two works from the Musée du Hiéron relating to Hugues de Semur.

The programme:

Saturday 5th October

- 8am: Welcome to participants at the Centre Culturel et de Congrès 9am: Presentation and introduction to the symposium. Catherine Vincent, President of the Friends of the Basilica, Nicoals Reveyron, Scientific Advisor.
- 9.30am: Beginning of proceedings
Nicolas Reveyron, Professor Emeritus, Université Lumière Lyon 2 "What is church restoration?
Aurélien Michel, Project Manager, Pays d'Art et d'Histoire, Project Manager for the Charolais-Brionnais UNESCO application "Maintaining and conserving, revealing and restoring, remodelling and modifying: three examples of the restoration of Romanesque churches in the Charolais-Brionnais (Paray-le-Monial, Varenne-l'Arconce and Saint-Nicolas de Marcigny)".
Philippe Dubois, University of Dijon and Société d'études mâconnaises "Le 'Vieux Saint-Vincent' de Mâcon".
- 12.30pm: Lunch
(possibility of lunch together at the restaurant Aux Vendanges de Bourgogne on registration)
- 2.15pm: Resumption of work
Charlotte Gaillard, City of Lyon Archaeology Department, Arar research associate "Understanding and restoring the Middle Ages in the 19th century: the examples of Île-Barbe and Saint-Irénée (Lyon)".
Yann Harlaut, Doctor of History, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne "The restoration of Notre-Dame de Reims (1919-1938). An exemplary history between ideologies, polemics, time constraints and means".
Bruno Phalip, Professor of Art History, University of Clermont Auvergne "Notre-Dame de Paris, restoration in the 19th century and restoration in the 20th century".
- Concluding remarks by Catherine Vincent
- 5.30pm: Continuation of the day at the Musée du Hiéron
Maud Siron, Curator of the Musée du Hiéron
"Saint Hugues in the collections of the Musée du Hiéron".
-6pm: Cocktail and meeting with the speakers at the Musée du Hiéron

Sunday 6th October
- Meeting at 8.45am at the Place de l'Europe car park - 71600 Paray-le-Monial :
Guided tours of the churches of Poisson and Marcigny
- Programme ends at 12 noon
*Programme subject to change in the order of speakers.