那隻老公雞在巴黎聖母院大火中倖存了下來。它傷痕累累，但倖存了下來，而這意義非凡，以至於它的替代品正是圍繞著「倖存」這一理念而設計的。
2023年12月16日，一尊新的金色公雞被起重機吊到重建後的尖頂上，距離地面96公尺。這尊公雞由首席建築師菲利普·維倫紐夫親自設計，他不僅替換了失去的，更對其進行了重新構想。新公雞的尾羽向上捲曲，如同火焰，這是經過精心設計的。維倫紐夫稱它為他的鳳凰，並解釋說，火焰般的翅膀象徵著大教堂可以從灰燼中重生。
在安裝之前，大主教洛朗·烏爾里希將一些聖物放入公雞胸前的小凹槽中：荊棘冠的碎片，以及聖丹尼斯和聖熱內維耶芙的遺骸。一份密封的文件被放在旁邊，上面列著近兩千名參與大教堂重建的人員名單。
公雞也承載著更古老的象徵意義。在法語中，「coq」與「高盧人」（Gaulois）在語言學上緊密相連，使其成為法國最古老的國家象徵之一；在基督教傳統中，它象徵著黑暗之後的光明回歸。這與原先的青銅公雞所扮演的象徵角色相同，在被大火燒毀之前，它曾扮演了超過一個世紀的角色。
維倫紐夫後來開玩笑說，設計這隻青銅公雞的過程如此費力，他可能需要去看心理醫生。取而代之的是一隻專門為象徵浴火重生而建造的公雞。
The old rooster survived the Notre-Dame fire. Battered, but it survived, and that mattered enough that its replacement was built around the idea of survival itself.
On December 16, 2023, a new golden rooster was lifted by crane onto the rebuilt spire, 96 meters above the ground. Chief architect Philippe Villeneuve designed it himself, and he didn't just replace what was lost, he reimagined it. The new rooster's tail feathers curl upward like flames, a deliberate choice. Villeneuve called it his phoenix, describing the wings of fire as a reminder that the cathedral could rise from its own ashes.
Before it went up, Archbishop Laurent Ulrich placed relics inside a small cavity in the rooster's breast: fragments of the Crown of Thorns, along with remains of Saint Denis and Saint Genevieve. A sealed document went in beside them, carrying the names of nearly 2,000 people who worked on the cathedral's reconstruction.
The rooster carries older symbolism too. In French, "coq" is tied linguistically to "Gaulois," making it one of the country's oldest national emblems, and in Christian tradition, it represents light returning after darkness. It's the same symbolic role the original bronze rooster played for over a century before the fire took it down.
Villeneuve later joked that designing it had been so demanding he might need to talk to his therapist about it. What went up in its place is a bird built specifically to represent coming back from fire.
A wind vane, weather vane, or weathercock is a type of anemoscope used for showing the direction of the wind. It is typically used as an architectural ornament to the highest point of a building. The word vane comes from the Old English word fana, meaning "flag".
![Weathercock on the former Thomas house [ja], Kobe, Japan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Weathercock_of_Former_Tohmas_House_20110313.jpg)
風見鶏という言葉は、元々は「風に向かって雄々しく立つ」という肯定的な意味で用いられていた。しかし戦後の日本政界で中曽根康弘が「風向き次第で態度がすぐ変わる風見鶏」と揶揄されたため、日和見主義という意味合いを持つようになった。その後は中曽根に限らず、態度がすぐ変わる政治家が批判的に「風見鶏」と呼ばれることが多い。例として2012年12月23日の産経新聞では、ジョン・ケリーが米国国務長官に指名された際の記事に、「民主党重鎮 “風見鶏”批判も」との見出しがある。
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