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around blowing If The Wind is to us, Notre Dame These Days , oddly, whistles, chimes fill the air. A ghostly harmony from that by the gaping holes in The Old , medieval structure left by The Fire exactly One Year ago.

For most of the last year, this quiet music was Drowned Out by the noise of the construction Work , The Tourists and the traffic around Notre Dame. But today, this Gothic giant is standing still and empty.

The cranes hang awkward and frozen on its scaffolding, the usual flow of tourists selfies queue went outside the freshly built hoarding.

The restrictions for dealing with the Corona Virus have meant that All of The Restoration Work here has stopped.

the"Notre Dame is a 850-year-Old Lady ," the rector of Notre-Dame, Patrick Chauvet , she told me. "She is an injured Old Lady . "

"And for All the elderly, the injured, those in quarantine, or isolated in old people's homes, I think there is a Symbolic Link . There is nobody around Notre Dame, either; she was Left Alone , but not abandoned. "

in the Late Afternoon of the 15th. In April 2019, Monseigneur Chauvet was with a drink in a nearby Café, when smoke rises started from the tower of Notre-Dame.

He ran to The Building he knows so well.

The Fire spread quickly, blazing through the mass of the medieval Rafters - known as "The Forest " and bring the legendary tower.

For a few critical hours, The Fire Department warned the French President, Notre Dame might not be saved.

A year on wooden pillars appeared on the walls, and a wide network of new scaffolding up around The Building . must be very carefully

Ironically, it is a set of old scaffolding, sat in front of The Fire restoration of The Cathedral , statues, even the immediate threat.

It burned and twisted in The Heat , and now must be dismantled and removed.

Patrick says the construction is still secure.

"It's still fragile," he told me. "It only takes a storm, a tornado, and it will move. If The Old frame, welded together, are removed, then we can say, The Cathedral is saved 100%. "

Claudine Loisel, a glass specialist, is working on The Restoration , care was The Lead and dirty test on each panel of The Building 's 19Th Century stained-glass windows to check, it is safe to start for the restorers with their Work .

you said a BBC4 TV documentary, the reconstruction of The Cathedral of Notre Dame, some of the window, it had not been cleaned for a century, and the dirt may have helped save you from lead contamination in The Fire .

"The First , thick layer [dust] acted as a "protective layer," she explained. "So we just have to remove to clean All of this debris, these windows. "

Claudine was working on a window on a Lower Level of The Cathedral , but experts believe that the windows are higher, probably the worst affected.

specialist craftsmen All over the country have worked, Far Away from The Cathedral Notre Dame on the art and the furniture saved from The Fire . It will minimize a nation-wide effort to what is lost.

But it is not only the coronavirus, which has held until The Restoration .

lead contamination also caused long delays immediately after The Fire , and the bad weather hindered efforts even more.

the researchers from the Centre for National Scientific Research (CNRS) In Paris to help the creation of a digital model of every stone and rafter, to The Restoration .

to See More Than 50 of The Cathedral musicians, a tribute to Notre Dame in the year:

Each has its own characteristics, sometimes of his own medieval signature. It is a technology from the 12. and 21 century Come together.

"It's amazing," researcher Livio de Luca told me, "because in this project, we are able to use The Most advanced technologies... in a human adventure. The data we produce, are analyzed by the Next Generation for the coming years. "

done, the ideas are already visible, such as the new tower and the roof might look like. International architects to submit designs, with mirrors, solar panels, or a significant expansion of Stained Glass were.

A changing face for an old identity. The Building around The World known as Notre Dame, Our Lady .

for centuries, For many, the First Lady of France.

the reconstruction of the Notre-Dame Cathedral: In The Cathedral rescue appears in the UK on BBC4 TV on Wednesday at 2100 BST.

Source of news: bbc.com