UK-France: The tide of realpolitik rises as the sea of rhetoric fades on both sides of the Channel
08/07/2025
Why are French police struggling to curb migrant Channel crossings?
France
08/07/2025
'Restatement of that historic commitment: Renegotiate important Franco-British bilateral agreements'
UK
07/07/2025
People First mobilising globally to free Ukrainians, including children, held captive by Russia
Europe
06/07/2025
Oasis: What's the story? "A man with a fork in a world of soup"
UK
06/07/2025
San Fermin bull-running festival kicks off in Spain
Europe
06/07/2025
Heatwaves and wildfires break out in Europe
Europe
06/07/2025
The Seine closes for a day due to bad weather in Paris.
France
06/07/2025
Wildfires: Firefighters mobilized to tackle blazes all over Europe
Europe
05/07/2025
Tour de France gets under way on home soil for first time in five years
France
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The Bright Side: Microsoft partners with French government to create Notre-Dame's digital replica
Microsoft is teaming up with the French government to create a digital replica of Paris ' Notre-Dame Cathedral, France 's most visited monument, the US tech company's president, Brad Smith, said on Monday. The 862-year-old Gothic masterpiece was reopened last December after a five-year restoration following a devastating fire in 2019. A digital replica will serve as a record of the building's architectural details, Microsoft said. It will also provide a virtual experience for visitors and those unable to visit. The cathedral became a symbol of Paris and France after Victor Hugo used it as a setting for his 1831 novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame". Quasimodo, the main character, has been portrayed in Hollywood movies, an animated Disney adaptation and in musicals. Last year, Microsoft worked with Iconem, a French company that specialises in digitalisation of heritage sites, on a digital replica of St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. "One of the things we learned from the work at St Peter's is how a digital twin can help support the ongoing maintenance of a building. Because you capture a digital record of every centimetre and what is there and what it's supposed to look like," Smith told Reuters. "The ability to create a digital twin right now I think will provide an enormously valuable digital record that I believe people are going to be using 100 years from now," he said. Since 2019, Microsoft has digitally preserved heritage sites and events including Ancient Olympia in Greece, Mont Saint-Michel in France and the 80th Anniversary of the Allied Beach Landings in Normandy.
