Howling winds couldn’t stop Notre-Dame’s heart from beating again. With three resounding knocks on its doors by Paris Archbishop Laurent Ulrich, wielding a staff carved from fire-scorched beams, the cathedral roared back to life on Saturday evening. For the first time since a devastating blaze on April 15, 2019, the towering …
Read More »Notre-Dame Cathedral to reopen after 2019 fire. It’s not the first time it needed saving
Day 65:57How Victor Hugo helped save Notre Dame, nearly 300 years ago This weekend’s reopening of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is the culmination of a repair and restoration effort more than five years after it was gutted by a catastrophic fire. Notre-Dame is one of the Western world’s most …
Read More »Notre-Dame Cathedral restoration ‘overwhelming,’ France’s Macron says ahead of reopening
Notre-Dame Cathedral will reopen its doors next week to Paris tourists and the Catholic faithful, five-and-a-half years after fire gutted the Gothic masterpiece, one of the French capital’s most beloved and visited monuments. President Emmanuel Macron was one of the first to catch a glimpse of the newly renovated cathedral …
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