'Invaluable heritage' destroyedpublished at 19:45 British Summer Time 15 April 2019
France 24 is reporting that French historian Camille Pascal has told a local news station that the fire is destroying "invaluable heritage".
"It's been 800 years that the cathedral watches over Paris", Mr Pascal said, adding: "Happy and unfortunate events for centuries have been marked by the bells of Notre-Dame."