A bell made for the recent Paris Olympics will be given to Notre Dame Cathedral which reopens this December.
During the Olympics, track and field athletes rang the bronze bell at the Saint-Denis’ Stade de France. The bell, which weighs 1,103 pounds, was made by the Cornille Havard foundry, which produces bells for France’s largest churches and cathedrals, specifically for the Olympic Games. The foundry is located in the small French commune of Villedieu-les-Poêles in Normandy.
In 2013, the Cornille Havard foundry made nine new bells for Notre Dame for the occasion of its 850th anniversary. It was this foundry that also restored eight of these nine bells after they were damaged in the tragic Notre Dame fire on 15 April 2019.