By TJ
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Notre-Dame will welcome, this Thursday, the bell rung by the Olympic and Paralympic champions at the Stade de France last summer.
One month before the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral, three new bells will be welcomed there, including that of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.The bell offered by the Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to the cathedral is a material heritage and a great symbol of this universal, unifying and historic event which marked the year 2024, welcomes Notre-Dame in a press release shared this Tuesday.
This Thursday, November 7 from 11 a.m., Monsignor Oliver Ribadeau Dumas, Rector of Notre-Dame Cathedral and Tony Estanguet, President of the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee, will together welcome the arrival of the bells on the square in front of Notre-Dame. “A few hours after Thursday's press event, this bell and its two little sisters will be installed in the cathedral. And will be from the reopening, heard every day, several times a day, by thousands of visitors from all over the world. indicates the organization.
Last summer at the Stade de France, the Paris Games bell became a symbol by being rung in turn by the Olympic and Paralympic champions, in athletics and rugby sevens in particular.
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