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Notre Dame

November 2024

  • Notre-Dame Cathedral Prepares To Reopen<br>PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 25: Tourists walks past Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral surrounded by cranes a few weeks before its reopening to the public scheduled for December 7, 2024 on October 25, 2024 in Paris, France. French ministers have floated the idea of ​​charging tourists to enter the world-famous Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris when it opens on December 7 after five years of restoration. "All over Europe, people have to pay to enter the most remarkable religious buildings". French Culture Minister Rachida Dati told Le Figaro newspaper in an interview published Wednesday night. She said she had proposed "a symbolic tax for all tourist visits to Notre Dame, with the money going entirely towards a major plan to conserve religious heritage." (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)

    €2 to illuminate a Caravaggio masterpiece is a small price to pay

    Letter: The row over an entrance fee to Notre Dame reminds Mike Pender of a visit to Syracuse

October 2024

  • Notre Dame with cranes and scaffolding

    Row erupts over plan to charge €5 to enter fire-hit Notre Dame

    Catholic church condemns idea of charging entrance fee when rebuilt cathedral reopens in December after five years

September 2024

  • A truck carrying bells parked outside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Thursday.

    Notre Dame bells returned and blessed before cathedral’s December reopening

    Bells, the ‘voice of the cathedral’, will be reinstalled in cathedral which is being reconstructed after 2019 fire

July 2024

  • The spire of Notre Dame collapsing as the fire engulfed it on 15 April 2019.

    ‘It is our destiny’: Meet the people who rebuilt Notre Dame

    For the past five years, Agnès Poirier has had unique access to the army of artisans tasked with rebuilding the 12th-century ‘soul of France’

April 2024

  • The fire at Notre Dame Cathedral on 15 April 2019.

    ‘Miraculous’: exquisite paintings saved from Notre Dame fire back on view

    Five years after the inferno at the Paris cathedral, a new exhibition shows the rescued art treasures

February 2024

  • Australian Brandenburg Orchestra performs Notre Dame at Melbourne Recital Centre in February 2024

    ABO: Notre Dame review – odd on paper, an absolute treat in reality

  • Lucy Mangan

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    Lucy Mangan

December 2023

  • notre dame and scaffolding

    ‘Vandalism’: outcry over plans to replace Notre Dame Cathedral’s chapel windows

  • New golden rooster being installed atop the spire of Notre Dame cathedral as part of its reconstruction.

    New Notre Dame rooster marks pivotal moment in cathedral’s restoration

September 2023

  • King Charles and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, leave the Élysée Palace on Wednesday during the king’s state visit.

    ‘Existential challenge’: King Charles calls for France-UK climate entente

    Monarch says two countries have duty to protect democracy and ensure Ukraine’s triumph, in address to French senate

August 2023

  • Jean-Louis Georgelin visiting Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2021.

    French general in charge of Notre-Dame rebuild dies in mountain fall

    Body of former chief of defence staff Jean-Louis Georgelin, 74, found on Mount Valier in Pyrénées

July 2023

  • The frames are transported by boat along the Seine.

    ‘It’s amazing to see’: trusses for Notre Dame’s new roof arrive by barge

    Four years on from fire that devastated Paris landmark, oak trusses weighing seven tonnes each are winched into place

March 2023

  • Cranes in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

    French activists launch legal case over English-only translations at Notre Dame

    Group says Paris landmark contravenes laws requiring public buildings to translate signs into at least two other languages

December 2022

  • A 14th-century lead sarcophagus discovered in the floor of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

    Notre Dame’s uncovered tombs start to reveal their secrets

    Two sarcophaguses unearthed in reconstruction work after 2019 fire identified as elite canon of cathedral and young cavalier

August 2022

  • Notre Dame on fire

    ‘They said it was impossible’: how medieval carpenters are rebuilding Notre Dame

    Project leaders at Guédelon Castle tell how their woodwork savoir faire is proving a godsend for mission to restore Paris cathedral roof

July 2022

  • Notre Dame on Fire.

    Notre-Dame on Fire review – a pulpy take on a real-life catastrophe

  • The wrong day to quit smoking … Notre Dame on Fire.

    Notre Dame on Fire review – high adventure ripped straight from the headlines

  • ‘It was a giant barbecue’ … the catastrophe is re-enacted in Annaud’s Notre-Dame on Fire.

    ‘Fire is the perfect villain’ – how the Notre Dame blaze became an explosive film

  • Notre Dame restoration project

    ‘We want it to come alive’: landscape architect’s plan to transform Notre Dame area

April 2022

  • Archaeologists work at Notre Dame Cathedral

    ‘Extraordinary’: ancient tombs and statues unearthed beneath Notre Dame Cathedral

    Archaeological dig also finds body-shaped lead sarcophagus buried at the heart of the fire-ravaged monument
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