Notre Dame of Paris in flames

A great fire broke out in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France.

Terrible and symbolic hours, various historical, frightening spectacle for anyone who loves a little history of France. It is the heart of a country that burns before the eyes of millions and millions of earthlings who wandered in the nave, tourists impressed by the aerial solemnity of the places, under the nerve warheads, stained glass windows in technicolor, among the venerable pillars and chapels with innumerable mysteries. Paris burns? Metaphorically, yes. A thick smoke crowns a theater as tormented as this implacable fire, so difficult to contain.

French firefighting official said the two towers of Notre Dame had been saved from total destruction in the fire which continues to burn in Paris.

The roof of the cathedral is completely collapsed.One of the firefighters who intervened in the fire was seriously injured.

The Paris Prosecutor's Office announced the launch of an investigation into the fire. However, no information was given about the cause of the fire.

The municipality of Paris has created a crisis desk to carry out the evacuation procedures due to the ongoing fire. In the framework of the decision of the Paris police, the evacuation of houses, hotels and workplaces around the cathedral began.

Notre Dame Cathedral spokesman Andre Finot, "Everything is burning, from the 19th century, from the 13th century everywhere burns, nothing will remain." made the description.

The Archbishop of Paris called all the priests in the capital and asked them to ring the Notre Dame Cathedral.

In a statement from the Vatican, it was announced that the fire was "shocking and regrettable", and that the French Catholics and the fire officers prayed together.

Macron canceled his speech

Receiving information increasingly at the scene, French President Emmanuel Macron canceled the press conference for the first concrete measures against the expectations of Yellow Vests.

"Notre Dame is in the flames. The whole nation is loaded with emotion. My thoughts are with all the French and the Catholic world. Like all our citizens, I feel sorry for my part burning tonight".

Trump: It’s very scary to watch the fire

"Notre Dame Cathedral fire is very scary to watch. Flying water tankers available. Immediate action should be taken," Trump posted on social media.

This frame in flames supported a hieratic roof and a proud arrow, but also a good part of the French identity, where are jostling memories of school and legend, those of Charles VII and Joan of Arc, Henri IV and Bossuet, the Revolution and the two Bonaparte, the Liberation, Claudel, Marshal and General and especially, in popular culture, Quasimodo, Frollo and Esmeralda, the heroes of Hugo's novel, paper monument that has increased tenfold the glory of the stone monument.

Doubting Heaven

Notre-Dame de Paris, as with the great Victor, is first the cruel and abundant Middle Ages, unjustly despised, rehabilitated by historians, acclaimed by the public, with his imperious faith to fanaticism, his bloody intrigues to the Game of Thrones, his misery and his massacres that cast doubt on Heaven. The fame of the stone vessel made it the great popular center of the capital. On the island of the City where Lutetia stood, the hierarchs of the Church in power without limit raise this offer of stone to their God who reigns over Europe. From west to east, turned towards Jerusalem like so many cathedrals, two massive towers, a colossal nave, a transept with rosettes of light, a choir like a bow in the Seine, and an arrow that scrapes the clouds dominate Christian Paris and embody the unanswerable strength of Catholicism. Fragile hovels and a people accustomed to misfortune who live hard in the shadow of gargoyles and stately saints, protected by relics with magical powers, including the crown of thorns of Christ deposited there by Saint-Louis, are crowded around. The cathedral welcomes the believers, the bourgeois, the lords, but also the reprobates, the excluded, the poor, between its walls that are thought to be livid because the original frescoes, with its gleaming and golden colors, have been erased by the time and never restored in a time when it is believed that religion was inherently austere.