Entertainment business pledges Notre-Dame rebuilding

Leisure giant Artémis and LVMH and Stade de France owner Vinci are among those to have donated millions to rebuild the burnt-out Notre-Dame cathedral

Notre-Dame was under renovation at the time of the fire © Milliped/Wikimedia Commons

Leading French entertainment and leisure business leaders have answered president Emmanuel Macron’s call to pledge resources to rebuild Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral, after last night’s devastating fire.

Billionaires François-Henri Pinault, president of investment company Groupe Artémis, and Bernard Arnault, chairman and CEO of luxury-goods conglomerate LVMH, have respectively promised donations of €100 million and €200m, kicking off a wave of corporate giving in response to Macron’s launch of a national subscription to rebuild Notre-Dame.

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