France’s president visits Notre Dame a year before the fire-damaged cathedral’s planned reopening
Associated PressPARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron visited Notre Dame Cathedral on Friday, one year before its scheduled reopening in 2024. You can see the extraordinary progress of the work on this nave, the choir and the frames and the spire.” The schedule calls for the completion of the penultimate restoration phase by the end of the year, with the cathedral’s much-anticipated reopening set for Dec. 8, 2024. The French first lady stood attentively before excavations by France’s National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research where archaeologists uncovered a 13th-century skeleton, adding a layer of historical depth to the restoration efforts. including a new museum and contemporary stained-glass windows He announced a contest for artists to design six new stained-glass windows for some chapels of the cathedral to memorialize post-fire restoration.