You’ve achieved what was said to be impossible,” the French president told workers at the Paris monument, which will reopen after the 2019 fire.

One week before the official reopening, French President Emmanuel Macron visited the construction site at the Notre-Dame Cathedral for a final time. The shock of the reopening will be as great as that of the fire which destroyed the world-famous church,

French President Emmanuel Macron has praised the more than 1,000 craftspeople who helped with “the project of the century” of rebuilding Paris ’ Notre-Dame Cathedral after it was gutted by a devastating fire.