Prominent representatives of avant-garde poetry since the 1960s, founders of spatialism, Ilse Garnier (1927-2020) and Pierre Garnier (1928-2016) are also the authors of works inspired by the cathedral and the imaginary associated with it (architecture, the Middle Ages, or even the Picardy language for Pierre Garnier).
The fire of Notre Dame (April 2019) has rekindled the battles surrounding the preservation of heritage monuments. The debate in which many writers participated had already been fierce during the 19th Century and after WW1 and WW2.