Notre-Dame spire will be reconstructed "identically" to how it was before 2019 fire

French president Emmanuel Macron has ended speculation over the future of Notre-Dame by stating that the cathedral's spire will be rebuilt exactly as it was before last year's devastating fire.
Macron has announced that a replica of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc 93-metre-high spire, which was added to the 13th-century cathedral in 1859, will be built as part of the reconstruction.
"The president trusts the experts and approved the main outlines of the project presented by the chief architect