On Saturday night, with a ritual knocking, the Archbishop of Paris marked the reopening of Notre Dame just five years after the fire, unveiling a restoration perhaps as extraordinary as was the ...

Much as been written and said about the grand reopening and restoration of France's Notre Dame, perhaps the world’s most famous cathedral, but for its famous gargoyles this is far from their ...

Increasing international awareness of the historic building was its use as a setting for Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame." ...

Victor Hugo helped make the cathedral a symbol of Paris and France when he used it as a setting for his 1831 novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame". Quasimodo, the main character, has been portrayed ...

Paris was abuzz with excitement after the beloved Notre Dame Cathedral reopened after a devastating fire. The April 2019 blaze broke out in the church's roof space, destroying its iconic spire and ...

Parisians gathered at the Pont de la Tournelle near Notre Dame Cathedral to sing hymns, after a huge fire destroyed much of the structure’s roof and spire. Image: AFP/Getty This weekend the ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. After a series of official ceremonies aiming to celebrate its recovery from a devastating fire in 2019 ...

Parisians watched in horror in 2019 as flames ravaged Notre Dame, a landmark famed as the setting for Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame and one of the world's most-visited monuments.

He cursed, made a U-turn and sped toward the cathedral. Mary, Queen of Scots was married at Notre-Dame, Joan of Arc beatified, Napoleon crowned. The cathedral has been so central to France that ...

When Tomas van Houtryve walked into Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral four years ago, he was wearing a hazmat suit and looking through a massive hole in its ceiling. At first you notice “all its ...