Choir, altar, stained glass windows… Unpublished and dazzling, our photos of restored Notre-Dame de Paris

South side view of the nave The blondness of the stones impresses all those who knew the cathedral before the fire, the walls then already gray with dust.

At the entrance to the choir, the new bronze altar designed by designer Guillaume Bardet awaits the relics which will be sealed inside by the archbishop, Mgr Laurent Ulrich, during the consecration mass, Sunday December 8.

The thirteen large chandeliers, restored by a Lubéron company, the Mathieu luster, have regained their gilding. Modernization requires: a whole series of different lighting is planned according to the liturgies, from semi-darkness for Good Friday to full light for the major feasts.

The Virgin of the Pillar, cleaned and restored, found its place at Notre-Dame on November 15, to the left of the altar.

Under the western rose window, the large organ, whose 8,000 pipes were dusted off one by one, was retuned over the last eighteen months. He will be “awakened” by the archbishop during a special liturgy this Saturday, December 7.

Two of the chapels to the south of the ambulatory: their decor imagined in every detail in the 19th century by Eugène de Viollet-le-Duc, has regained its shine thanks to meticulous cleaning. No one imagined such a flamboyance of such bright colors.