President-elect Donald Trump will visit Paris for the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral on Dec. 7, an event that marks his return to the world stage as the political future of two other European leaders who will be in attendance is uncertain.
Some 50 heads of state are expected to attend the weekend event that caps five years of extensive renovations after the cathedral, one of the most widely recognized churches in the world and a symbol of the French capital, was nearly destroyed by fire in 2019.
The opening begins on Dec. 7 with Archbishop Laurent Ulrich’s ceremonial knock on the cathedral’s massive outer doors. The doors will open accompanied by the chanting of a psalm. That will be followed by the reawakening of the cathedral’s 8,000-pipe organ….