A picture taken on April 17, 2019 shows the south gate of the Notre-Dame de Chartres cathedral in Chartres, western France, rebuilt after a fire in 1836. - The bells of French cathedrals were to ring ...

This article is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. If I told you that I visited Notre-Dame de Paris in March of this year and that, ...

Paris was devastated on April 15, 2019, when the roof of the famous medieval cathedral Notre-Dame De Paris caught on fire. Thanks to the vaulted stone ceiling in the interior, the damage could have ...

For five years, tiny figures in hazmat suits have been visible on the scaffolding around Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, like Lilliputians swarming over Gulliver’s body. Sometimes one spotted a slab ...

In DepthSince the Middle Ages, the cathedral, built by the Church, has been the scene of sumptuous ceremonies associating political power with religion. This tradition was taken up by Napoleon I, then ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on April 9, 2023. The original video can be viewed here. When the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris caught fire in April 2019, it was one of those ...

Dating back to the 12th century, this Gothic cathedral was the world's tallest building for about five years – 1876 to 1880. But its beauty in changing light is what drew the impressionist artist, ...

Seeing the spire of Notre-Dame split like a pencil, you wanted, honestly, to be sick. “La flèche s’est effondrée” (“The spire has collapsed”) was how they said it—on TV, on the radio, on Twitter—in ...

Tell me: What’s this place all about? This gothic cathedral in the heart of Reims is more than 800 year old, and was badly damaged during WWI. In fact, 80 percent of the city was razed around it, so ...