2024-01-31 10:04:40
A small Paris building used by double Nobel winner Marie Curie will be moved rather than torn down, French Culture Minister Rachida Dati said Wednesday, January 31, hoping to put an end to a months-long row. The Pavillon des Sources “will not be destroyed” but “moved a few meters… brick by brick,” Dati told France Inter radio.
A high-tech cancer research center is planned by the Institut Curie at the site in Paris’s touristy Latin Quarter. But history buffs had protested at the demolition of a building they say was vital to Marie Curie’s pioneering work on radiation more than 100 years ago. Dati’s predecessor at the culture ministry, Rima Abdul Malak, had earlier this month put the plans on hold while searching for a compromise.
“The center for fighting cancer will be able to be developed and modernized” under the new deal, Dati said.
Institut Curie chief Thierry Philip has insisted that Curie herself only used the Pavillon des Sources to store radioactive waste. But the Curie museum says she trained people there to manufacture radium capsules, used to disinfect the wounds of World War I casualties.
The demolition of the Pavillon des Sources had been green-lighted by Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, whose fierce rival Dati hopes to unseat her in 2026 municipal elections.
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