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Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral has some surprising stories to tell before it reopens this weekend after five years of restoration. The cathedral is considered France’s geographic center, marked by a plaque used to measure distances nationwide. Its famed chimera sculptures were actually 19th-century additions by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. During the French Revolution, Notre Dame was stripped of religious symbols, renamed “Notre-Dame of the reason,” and even used as a wine warehouse. In 1977, the long-lost beheaded statues from its facade were rediscovered and restored. And the 2019 fire that prompted the latest renovations exposed a global lack of outdoor l

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