P ARIS (AP) — A medieval statue of the Virgin Mary and Child, known as “The Virgin of Paris,” returned to Notre Dame cathedral Friday evening, five years after surviving the devastating 2019 ...

It may be a surprise to learn that the gruesome faced statues most of us associate ... over Paris from the top of the 11th century Notre Dame cathedral Friday Jan 10, 1997.

It has taken hundreds of compagnons, France's artists and craftspeople, to pull off a restoration so fast, so meticulous, and so true to Notre Dame's past.

It is often ordinary people who create the most extraordinary beauty, particularly when the undertaking is grand in scope.

To walk into Notre Dame today is to see no sign of 2019. Then, the cathedral's nave was littered ... and so do the many marble statues and decorative metalworks. The workers and craftspeople ...

After Notre Dame Cathedral's splendid reopening, the attention of Paris Catholics turned to the nearby Church of Notre Dame ...

The nonprofit he leads, Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris, has raised $57 million from ... that were cleaned, the statues that were restored,” he said. “All of that did not exist before the ...

Notre Dame’s resurrection rejects the timid and self-effacing psychosis that has long strangled the West. It is a physical ...