Anticipation has been building among Paris residents ahead of the cathedral's reopening, announced for Dec. 8. After the fire, French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to rebuild Notre Dame within ...

Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris mobilized public sentiment and helped to save the battered cathedral from destruction. The novel portrays Notre Dame as the embodiment of history itself.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump greets Prince William, Prince of Wales during the ceremony to mark the reopening of Notre-Dame of Paris Cathedral on December 07, 2024 in Paris, France.

Five years after it was nearly destroyed in a devastating fire, Notre Dame de Paris formally reopened on Saturday with a two-hour ceremony inside the famed cathedral’s gleaming, newly renovated ...

Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel “Notre-Dame de Paris,” or “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” which not only immortalized the cathedral’s story, but spared it from destruction by inspiring a major ...

This photograph shows the baptistery of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, designed by French artist and designer Guillaume Bardet, in Paris on Nov. 29, 2024.© Christophe Petit Tesson, AFP via Getty ...