France will invite architects from around the world to submit designs for rebuilding the spire1 of Notre-Dame cathedral, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said Wednesday.
法国总理爱德华·菲利普周三表示，法国将邀请全球各地的建筑师为巴黎圣母院的尖塔提交设计方案。
The goal is "to give Notre-Dame a new spire that is adapted to the techniques and the challenges of our era," Philippe told reporters a day after President Emmanuel Macron
vowed2 to rebuild the cathedral "even more beautifully" within five years.
Thousands of Parisians and tourists watched in horror Monday as flames
engulfed3 a monument that has
symbolized4 Paris for nearly a
millennium5, toppling the spire and
gutting6 a large part of the roof.
No sooner had firefighters extinguished the flames than pledges of donations towards rebuilding it began to pour in.
Within 24 hours, the pledges had reached more than 800 million euros ($900 million), with French business magnates and corporations jostling to outshine each other with displays of
generosity7.
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