WORLD
February 3, 2008 | Devorah Lauter, Special to The Times
Makingson Delivrance Mespoulous runs his fingers along a worn-smooth column holding up the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral that has presided in Gothic splendor over Paris for eight centuries, his face dusted white from stone shavings. The 34-year-old stone carver has spent the last 11 years restoring the stained-black arches and nose-less gargoyles of some of France's favorite, but crumbling, monuments.