Six months on, Notre-Dame`s rebirth still years away
(Artdaily.org)

One day after the blaze that scarred Notre-Dame, President Emmanuel Macron addressed a nation in shock at the damage to one of its great cultural landmarks, with a promise that rang as clearly as the peal of the cathedral`s bells. `We will rebuild the cathedral even more beautifully and I want it to be finished within five years,` Macron said on national television on the evening of April 16, 2019. `And we can do it,` he added. But six months after the April 15 fire that tore through the roof of the 13th-century Paris cathedral and toppled its spire, the reconstruction process is shaping up to be much more complex than many anticipated. Workers have had to clean up significant quantities of lead that melted from the roof and contaminated areas around the cathedral, with critics saying the authorities were slow to warn