an “unprecedented challenge, ”Over four months, 10 or so ax makers slept and ate in her home and toiled at the forge, welding steel and puddled iron together at roughly 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit.

Bronze workers at a foundry in southeastern France.Credit...Olivier Chassignole/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images


Her workshop and four others assembled for an “unprecedented challenge,” she said. It was a rare opportunity to show their skills. Over four months, 10 or so ax makers slept and ate in her home and toiled at the forge, welding steel and puddled iron together at roughly 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit.

“This profession disappeared almost entirely during the 20th century with industrialization,” said Martin Claudel, one of the ax-makers, who trekked back and forth from his own workshop in Brittany. “Notre-Dame shined a big spotlight on it.”

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FORGE translate: 複製, 偽造;假冒, 創造, （尤指努力地）製造，生産, 移動, 突然向前猛衝, 鍛造車間;鐵工廠. Learn more in the Cambridge English-Chinese traditional ...