Radiance, grandeur and beauty. Walking through Notre-Dame’s great door and into the cathedral’s vast, vaulted interior is an awe-inspiring and humbling moment.

Even before dozens of head of state, world dignitaries and monarchs were ushered into Notre-Dame for Saturday’s great reopening ceremony, five years after the devastating fire, The Telegraph was taken on a tour of the Gothic masterpiece whose epic reconstruction at a cost of £800 million is the pride of France.