Salma Hayek and her billionaire husband, François-Henri Pinault, were two of the more than 1,500 guests to attend Saturday's reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral more than five years after a fire ...

On Saturday night, with a ritual knocking, the Archbishop of Paris marked the reopening of Notre Dame just five years after the fire, unveiling a restoration perhaps as extraordinary as was the ...

It may be a surprise to learn that the gruesome faced statues most of us associate with Notre-Dame are not gargoyles, and that the majority of these statues were carved after the publication of ...

It may be a surprise to learn that the gruesome faced statues most of us associate with Notre-Dame are not gargoyles, and that the majority of these statues were carved after the publication of Victor ...

The great gargoyle myth Those scary stone creatures ... revolutionaries also decapitated 28 statues from Notre Dame’s facade, mistaking them for French monarchs. They were actually ancient ...

Richard Fausset Catherine Porter and Tim Balk Reporting from Paris Five years after a runaway fire devoured its roof, a renovated Notre-Dame Cathedral ... such a lovely spit shine, particularly ...

Additionally, gargoyles adorned the building’s sides ... They destroyed more than two dozen statues affixed to the church façade. And in 1793, Notre Dame became the site of the Festival of Reason, a ...

Notre Dame cathedral, which is set to reopen to the public on Sunday after a five-year restoration following a devastating fire, stands as a jewel of Gothic architecture, a symbol of Paris and a ...