Notre Dame Cathedral spire gets golden rooster weathervane, a symbol of a phoenix
Notre Dame Cathedral got its rooster back Saturday, in a pivotal moment for the Paris landmark's restoration.
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Notre Dame Cathedral got its rooster back Saturday, in a pivotal moment for the Paris landmark's restoration.
The bar was already high, but the security challenge ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games only grew with a knife attack last weekend that killed a tourist near the Eiffel Tower. Still, the assault at the hand of a suspected Islamic radical, a kind of invisible enemy, left law enforcement undaunted.
When flames tore into Notre Dame in 2019, people who worked in the cathedral felt orphaned. But as the world-famous Paris landmark's reopening draws closer, they are beginning to picture their return to the place they call home and are impatient to breathe life back into its repaired stonework and vast spaces.
A bloodstain by a bridge over the Seine river was the only remaining sign on Sunday of a fatal knife attack 12 hours earlier on a German tourist, allegedly carried out by a young man under watch for suspected Islamic radicalization.
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