
French President Emmanuel Macron will in December give an address inside Notre Dame to mark the reopening of the mighty cathedral devastated by fire in 2019, in an unusual move for a leader of the secular state, the archbishop of Paris said.
Archbishop Laurent Ulrich told AFP in an interview that Macron's speech for the reopening on Saturday, December 7 will be one of the centrepieces of a weekend of events that will include the first mass since the fire, the following day.