The US President was not in attendance while First Lady Jill Biden sat near president-elect Donald Trump for the ceremony in Paris.
The bells of Notre Dame are once again ringing in the French capital following a lavish ceremony to welcome the gothic cathedral's rebirth., US first lady Jill Biden, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron.Spectators gather outside France's iconic Notre Dame Cathedral during its reopening.
Macron welcomed Trump with the pair's now infamous handshake following a private meeting before the ceremony. It took five years of frenetic construction work to recreate the soaring ceilings and stonework beloved by centuries of visitors to the church's sacred grounds.
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