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Nov 8, 2024 at 8:15 a.m.
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Manufactured by the famous Cornille-Havard foundry in Villedieu-les-Poêles (Manche), the bell which was located during summer 2024 at the Olympic and Paralympic Games was installed on Thursday November 7, 2024 at Notre-Dame de Paris.
The cathedralwhich had already found its eight bells in September, in fact welcomed three others on Thursday, including the one, therefore, which was located at Stade de France during the Olympics.
Bells heard several times a day
The latter “will not sound either to mean the victory of the athletes but to signify the victory of life over death” and “of light over darkness”, emphasized Mgr Oliver Ribadeau Dumasrector of Notre-Dame, on this occasion.
The bell offered by the Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games is a strong symbol and a material legacy of this universal, historic and unifying event which marked the year 2024.
The bells were welcomed on their arrival on the square Thursday morning by Monsignor Oliver Ribadeau Dumas, and by Tony Estanguet, the president of the Organizing Committee of Paris 2024.
Notre-Dame specifies that the bells will be “installed in the cathedral” later, and will be, from reopening“heard every day, several times a day, by thousands of faithful and visitors coming from all over the world ».
A 700 million euro project
As for the ceremony planned for the reopening, which Pope Francis – once expected – will ultimately not attend, few details have so far filtered out. The Archbishop of Paris, Laurent Ulrich, announced that President Macron would speak in the cathedral on December 7 and that it would include an “awakening of the organ”, which was “completely dismantled, cleaned and put back in place.” working condition”.
Other elements concerning this day must be disclosed during a press conference scheduled for November 13, but press reports have recently mentioned tensions between the Elysée and the diocese relating to the progress of the protocol ceremony, the list of guests and its financing.
However, it is certain that a mass will take place on December 8 in the cathedral to consecrate the new altar. It will be followed by several other services to thank all those who contributed to the restoration of the cathedral.
Enough to punctuate a titanic project which will have mobilized 250 companies, as well as hundreds of craftsmen, and cost a total of nearly 700 million euros financed by the 846 million euros in donations which have flowed in from 150 countries.
Reopening in a month
One month before its reopening, Notre-Dame de Paris, ravaged by firefive years ago, has found his familiar silhouette and is preparing to receive his first visitors December 7 , during a ceremonythe contours of which, however, remain unclear.
The day after the disaster occurred April 15, 2019Emmanuel Macron had set the audacious objective of a reconstruction in five years a bet about to be kept despite stopping the construction site for several weeks in 2020 due to the pandemic and the need to decontaminate the environment from lead dispersed in the atmosphere.
Symbol of the rebirth of the cathedral, the spire, which had collapsed before stunned eyes Parisiansand of millions of viewers around the worldrises again in the sky, identical to that of the 19th century architecte century Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.
Part of the lead covering on its base nevertheless remains to be finished and the statues of the apostles and saintsremoved before the fire to allow their restorationwill be reinstalled at first half of 2025.
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