‘Someone has to roll up their sleeves’: Meet the 23-year-old Catholic restoring France’s statues

‘Someone has to roll up their sleeves’: Meet the 23-year-old Catholic restoring France’s statues

Temperatures climbed so high in France this summer that wildfires forced mass evacuations, Champagne grapes were harvested exceptionally early, the Louvre closed in the afternoons, and the field at the historic Parc des Princes stadium turned brown.Raphaël Castex restores the statue of the Virgin of the Vow in Puygiron in the Drôme department in southeastern France. Credit: Raphaël Castex/Rénove une Statue.With the mercury peaking at 111 degrees…