Notre Dame Cathedral

President-elect Donald Trump greeted United States Marines who are stationed in France during his visit to the country and to attend the re-opening of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

President-Elect Donald J. Trump joined dozens of world leaders and dignitaries on Saturday for the grand reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, five years after the famed Gothic cathedral was tragically ravaged by fire.

Nature abhors a vacuum. So does politics. No sooner had President-elect Donald Trump been confirmed as the next occupant of the White House than beleaguered French President Emmanuel Macron sought to invite him to Saturday’s reopening of the magnificently restored Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris.

First Lady Jill Biden left for an overseas jaunt late Tuesday night to undertake a series of glittering dinners, receptions, diplomatic meetings, drinks, banquets, and a wedding reception. The flying trip ends with her joining President-elect Donald Trump and other dignitaries in Paris to celebrate the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral.

French President Macron hailed “sublime” rebuild of the magnificent 12th-century Notre Dame as he toured it before reopening on Friday. 

France’s culture minister proposed introducing an entrance fee to Notre Dame Cathedral when it reopens to raise funds to preserve churches.

Paris Olympics officials have announced the installation of a bell made for the 2024 games into Notre Dame Cathedral to ring in the faithful.

The blaze is believed to have started on the roof during renovations on Tuesday morning.

Passers-by rushed into the Old Stock Exchange building to rescue a number of large historic paintings as the building burnt.

An ISIS-tied Egyptian man was arrested in France in connection to a terrorist plot against the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.

Emmanuel Macron is facing outrage over plans to replace historic stained glass windows with modern verisions in the Cathedral of Notre Dame.

Top art historian publishes report on fire, says not only could blaze been avoided, but other historic buildings remain vulnerable.

One evening in 2016, an assailant killed two police officers in their family home, in front of their 3-year-old son.

The French general in charge of the restoration of fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Jean-Louis Georgelin, has died at 74.

A crane hoisted massive oak trusses onto Notre Dame Cathedral on Tuesday in a spectacular operation to rebuild ‘Our Lady of Paris’.

Medieval carpenters would surely be amazed to see woodworking techniques they pioneered 800 years ago are being used again today.

The French government wanted a modernist redesign of Notre-Dame, according to its former culture minister, with President Macron’s wife pitching a new spire resembling male genitalia.

Several tombs and a leaden sarcophagus likely dating from the 14th century have been uncovered by archaeologists at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris following its devastating 2019 fire.

The French cathedral of Notre-Dame will be getting some more modernized redesigns in its interior after a fire nearly destroyed it.

The Notre Dame Cathedral looks set to become a super-woke Disneyland-style “theme park” under new renovation plans.

French President Emmanuel Macron visited Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral on the second anniversary of its near-total loss to fire, calling for it to reopen for 2024, apparently whether it was ready or not.

PARIS (AP) — Wearing hard hats and protective suits, members of the choir of Notre Dame Cathedral sang inside the medieval Paris landmark for the first time since last year’s devastating fire for a special Christmas Eve concert.

Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, which was nearly totally lost to fire in April 2019, will be rebuilt as it was, the French government says, defying the calls of modernist architects to seize the opportunity to give the medieval masterpiece a glass and steel overhaul.

Donald Trump has expressed faith in Notre Dame, stating its completion would give “glory to God” and fill millions of people with wonder.

PARIS (AP) — The rector of Notre Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark is still so fragile that there’s a “50% chance” the structure might not be saved, because scaffolding installed before this year’s fire is threatening the vaults of the Gothic monument.

PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame Cathedral is unable to host Christmas services for the first time since the French Revolution, because the Paris landmark was too deeply damaged by this year’s fire.

A Missouri church did its best to honor the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris by creating a 7-foot tall gingerbread replica of the church.

Two radical Islamic terrorist women who plotted to attack the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris by blowing up a car filled with explosives have been given 25 and 30-year sentences. 

France’s culture minister says the melted, twisted scaffolding atop Notre Dame Cathedral will be removed “in the coming weeks” to allow restoration work to begin.

Before it was ravaged by fire, Notre Dame Cathedral was the target of a bungled terrorist plot by two French women who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.

The chief architect of Notre Dame in Paris said he is concerned that the ongoing heatwave in Europe could risk the structural integrity of the fire-damaged cathedral.

French prosecutors have ruled out deliberate criminal action in the April fire that destroyed the roof and spire of Notre Dame cathedral, but are investigating possible negligence.

Despite promises from some of France’s most famous billionaires, a spokesman from the Notre Dame cathedral claims none have sent any money so far to help the rebuild following April’s devastating fire.

PARIS (AP) — The archbishop wore a hard-hat helmet, burnt wood debris was still visible and only about 30 people were let inside, but Notre Dame Cathedral on Saturday held its first Mass since the devastating April 15th fire that ravaged its roof and toppled its masterpiece spire.

PARIS (AP) – Notre Dame Cathedral’s melted roof has left astronomically high lead levels in the plaza outside and adjacent roads.

French high school students attending anti-racism sessions this week have been warned that it would be “bizarre” to feel greater emotion over the Notre-Dame cathedral fire than about the plight of migrants in the Mediterranean.