Firefighters are battling a fire that broke out on Saturday morning inside a cathedral in the western French city of Nantes.
TV images showed smoke coming out of the 15th-century Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul Cathedral. The blaze comes just over a year after a large fire at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, which destroyed its roof and main spire.
Cecile Renaud, who works in a bakery facing the cathedral and alerted the fire services, told BFM TV she had seen huge flames inside. “It was a huge shock. It’s extremely sad,” she said.
It is not the first time the cathedral has caught fire. It was partly destroyed during the second world war in 1944 after Allied bombings. In 1972, a fire destroyed its roof. It was rebuilt 13 years later.
source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/18/french-firefighters-tackle-blaze-at-nantes-cathedral
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