Photos: Pa images, reuters LASt wEEK, mILLIONS of people around the world watched in horror as Notre Dame, the centuries-old cathedral at the heart of Paris, was devastated by fire.
Mobile phone footage showed flames, fierce and glowing against the night sky, and below, rows of kneeling Parisians, some holding rosaries, singing a quiet, defiant Ave Maria, as the cathedral’s spire fell. Risking their lives, 400 firefighters battled the blaze on Monday night, one suffering serious injury, but they could not stop the roof from collapse.
Speaking for a grieving nation, President Macron said, ‘Notre Dame is our history, our literature, our imagination, the place where we have lived our great moments, our wars, our liberations. That history is ours and it is burning.’
But the sorrow was not confined…
