The blaze that engulfed Notre Dame brought memories and sorrow to people around the world
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The blaze that engulfed Notre-Dame brought memories and sorrow to people around the world who had seen or dreamed of seeing the church known for its sculpted gargoyle guards and place in literary history. But emotions might have run highest in the crowd outside another Gothic church, not far from where Notre-Dame burned.In front of the Saint-Julien-des-Pauvres church, a couple hundred people knelt in prayer in the middle of a larger group.
The cathedral also called to Quentin Salardaine, 25, a doctor from Paris, as flames devoured it and coloured the sky. The fire chief in Paris reported crews were struggled to contain the fire, which progressed into the cathedral’s wooden interior and one of the architecturally distinctive towers. Streams of water from fire hoses whipped across the exterior.
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