Like a gift being unwrapped, the spire of Notre-Dame gradually becomes visible.
The scaffolding disappears, and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's masterpiece once again embraces the clouds of the Paris sky, rivaling the tower of Gustave Eiffel, another genius builder of the 19th century.
Day after day, the cathedral dries its tears and forgets the disastrous evening of April 15, 2019, when the world thought it was lost.
At the foot of the most famous golden rooster in France, early in the morning or at the end of the day, we come across craftsmen and helmeted companions from all over the country in the streets adjoining the monument.
In the middle of the afternoon, we hear shouts, hammer blows, the metallic sounds of the construction site of the century.
Like a journey through time, the walker finds himself projected into 1163 when Bishop Maurice de Sully laid the first stone of the building on this Île de la Cité, on the site of a Merovingian church whose first foundations date back in the 4th century.
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