It has been a place of worship for over 800 years, but for the first time since the French Revolution, Parisians will be missing out on a midnight Christmas mass at the capital's famed Notre Dame Cathedral.
Instead, proceedings will be moved to another Parisian Gothic church, Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois — which formerly served as the parish church for France's Royals who had occupied Louvre Palace .
"We have the opportunity to celebrate the mass outside the walls, so to speak … but with some indicators that Notre Dame is connected to us," Mr Chauvet said
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