🇫🇷⛪️🔥❗️ — Over the past hours, on social networks, it has been reported that the historic Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen - a Gothic-styled Roman Catholic cathedral, located in Rouen, Normady, Northwestern France -, whose construction dates back to the 12th century, is on fire.

➡️ As reported by local media, people in the streets of Rouen below watched in horror as 40 fire engines rushed to the site and emergency workers set up a cordon around the cathedral, a jewel of French medieval Gothic architecture made famous by the paintings of impressionist Claude Monet in the 19th century.

➡️ Eye-witness Patrick Waeselynck told BFM television he was sitting at the terrace of a nearby cafe when he heard people shouting "fire".

"I turn around and I see the cathedral spire, the tarpaulin which was protecting the restoration work, which was burning, big flames, black smoke," he said.

"The first thing we thought was what happened in Paris, it was a shock of course. But the police arrived, they set up a security perimeter, the firefighters arrived."

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