The restoration of the Notre-Dame in Paris after its partial destruction by fire in April 2019 will give the world a 'shock of hope', Emmanuel Macron has said, as he marked the medieval cathedral’s imminent reopening with a televised walking tour. Alongside the first lady, Brigitte Macron, and the archbishop of Paris, Laurent Ulrich, the French president was shown around the rebuilt medieval masterpiece by Philippe Villeneuve, the chief architect of France’s national monuments
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