The spire, which was burnt in the recent fire, with the apostles and French architect Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (who won a competition to refurbish the cathedral in 1844 and rebuilt the spire, which was removed in 1786) as St Thomas the Doubter, contemplating his own work. This statue is the only one looking at the spire.
For more than 850 years, the Notre-Dame Cathedral has stood sentinel in the centre of Paris, a signpost of the city's culture and heritage.
It's where kings and queens were married; where the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte took place; and where England's Henry VI was crowned king of France.
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