Lovely photos… fascinating to see what’s been going on…
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OH and I were lucky enough to visit SOCRA at Périgueux (just after the NDame fire in Paris) . Excellent/informative tour and we saw at first hand the statues due to be renovated, which had arrived there shortly before the fire (such good luck).
This video talks about the work which SOCRA has undertaken since the fire.
If anyone has an opportunity to visit this workshop… don’t miss out.
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I’d say this is about as comprehensive and informative a visual account of Notre Dame’s 200 years’ worth of construction as you can get.
And I think Lucy Worsley’s fascinating account of its fire-damage rebuild/renovation is well worth a watch!
Both are a long watch but interesting to see that the original build of the cathedral, and the later fire-damage renovation, used the cutting-edge technologies & techniques of their respective but differing times, with dedication being a single shared value, albeit maybe for different reasons.
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I’m sure she is a wonderful friend, knowledgeable and unbelievably clever but she is also one of the most irritating women on the planet. 
I would watch, but for Lucy.
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She’s different I agree, but I find her adorable!
This is rather good … too…
She doesn’t irritate me. I find her erudite, informative and measured and a vast improvement over the many pop culture historians who seem to believe that their usefulness is proportional to the about of hand waving they indulge in.
I agree. Not long to go to for completion…
Five years after fire, Notre-Dame Cathedral's restoration is nearly complete.
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It is really wondrous to see what the will and money can achieve in remarkably little time.
I agree. I think many people assume she is posh and from a privileged background, but she isn’t at all. Her posh sounding voice is due to a speech impediment.
Edit: Not a patch on the finest though, who wasn’t even a historian, Jacob Bronowski.
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OH reckons I can’t talk without moving/waving my hands… 
Also having retained and promoted the necessary artisanal skills.
By contrast when York Minster was damaged by fire and being restored, many of the artisans came from beyond the UK;