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| Hôtel de la Marine will open to public Under the European Heritage Days programme, the Hôtel de la Marine restoration project will open to the public on 15 and 16 September 2007. The French Minister of Defence, Herve Morin, and the French Minister of Culture and Communication, Christine Albanel, hail the commitment of Bouygues to restore the Hôtel de la Marine under the most generous “skills sponsorship” Paris has seen. The French Navy's admiral ship has not once slipped her moorings from this historic location in central Paris since she first berthed there in 1789. The building houses the Admiralty, employing 1,000 military and civilian staff to attend to the requirements of Navy units on every sea, preserve existing French naval resources and prepare the future. The Hôtel de la Marine building is undergoing its most extensive restoration for two centuries. As an entirely functional naval facility, it deserved the very best know-how. Bouygues was keen to respond to the call by the French Ministry of Defence, the Admiralty and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication in the form of a €6.2 million skills sponsorship arrangement. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |