Notre Dame nuptial: Fairy tale for restoration worker

After the nuptials of emperors and kings, those of a carpenter in the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris— the timing of this fairytale couldn't be better for France, a country that is currently undergoing deep political and economic turmoil with a President as lost as a captain trying to dock a ship without an anchor, a First Lady embroiled in a humiliating scandal involving her gender, and a glorious nation that is the laughingstock of the world because of sloppy surveillance in its most prized museum causing the shameful Louvre heist in broad daylight.

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In reminiscence of the original French values of Christian socialism, the Notre Dame granted an exceptional permission to one of the carpenters involved in the restoration work of the Cathedral after the infamous 2019 fire to get married to his sweetheart at the Notre Dame altar. Last weekend, on October 25, 2025, Martin Lorentz, one of the 500 carpenters who toiled for the revival of France’s emblematic legacy and architectural marvel, the Notre Dame, wed Jade at his “workplace” — thus freshening up the image of Paris as the city of love.