French president Emmanuel Macron visits Notre Dame as work continues to restore the historic cathedral following a devastating fire in 2019. Macron’s vist marks the one-year countdown to the cathedral’s reopening in 2024.

High scaffolding and the framework of the new spire of the Notre-Dame Cathedral, which was ravaged by a fire in 2019, as restoration works continue a year before its reopening to the public, in Paris, France, December 8, 2023.

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