PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday observed the work to salvage and restore Notre-Dame de Paris, two years to the day after flames ripped through the cathedral’s centuries-old attic and sent its spire crashing through the vaults below.
In the hours after the blaze, Macron promised a distraught French nation that the cathedral, which dates back to the 12th century, would be rebuilt and later said it would be reopened in some form to worshippers by 2024.
More than 700 days after workers scrambled to shore-up Notre-Dame’s flying buttresses, stabilize the bell towers and install hundreds of movement sensors, the effort to make the site secure ahead of restor…
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