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Notre-Dame Fire Causes Heartbreak and Despair Around the World

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People watched with horror as a fire consumed the spire and roof of Paris’s famed cathedral, and expressed despair that one of the city’s symbols was being scarred.
The fire that tore through the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris on Monday, collapsing its central spire and caving in much of its roof, generated an outpouring of grief in France and around the world as a symbol of the country’s culture and history burned.
President Emmanuel Macron of France canceled a major speech on the Yellow Vests protests that have roiled the country, saying on Twitter, “like all of our fellow citizens, I am sad tonight to see this part of us burn.”
Thousands of French citizens lined the banks of the Seine, many in tears or unable to speak, watching the flames gut the cathedral, which survived two world wars unscathed, as tens of thousands more watched on live video streams on social media or television news. Many expressed the same sentiment: They were heartbroken.

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