Macron hails ‘huge job’ rebuilding Notre Dame after devastating fire

French President Emmanuel Macron stands by a stained glass window under the damaged vaults during a visit at the reconstruction site of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, Thursday April 15, 2021. Two years after a fire tore through Paris’ most famous cathedral and shocked the world, French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday visited the building site that Notre Dame has become to show that French heritage has not been forgotten despite the coronavirus. (Ian Langsdon, Pool via AP)

French President Emmanuel Macron has visited the building site that Notre Dame has become to show that the country’s heritage has not been forgotten despite the pandemic.

Two years after a fire tore through Paris’s most famous cathedral, he viewed the progress of the ambitious rebuilding project, and offered the pandemic-weary French public hope that a completion date will arrive one day, if not in the near future.