French President Emmanuel Macron visited Notre Dame Cathedral today (8 December), one year before its scheduled reopening in 2024. After a blaze burned through the roof and spire on 15 April 2019, Macron’s visits have become a tradition, with this occasion marking his sixth to highlight the rebuilding progress. Today, Macron wore a hardhat and went up the spire, reconstructed from its previous design by the famed 19th-century French architect Eugen Viollet-le-Duc. “Since April 2019, the entire nation has been rebuilding,” Macron told reporters. “And it’s very moving to be here a year before. Y…
