Tout est perdu...

Watching a terrible fire gradually destroy Notre Dame in Paris.  All that beauty on the Ile de la Cité.  The wooden spire and roof have both fallen, the beautiful windows are gone; there's a fight to try and rescue some of the artwork and artifacts from the back of the cathedral, but no-one is hopeful.  The very structure of the iconic northern tower is in question and, if that goes, the southern tower and the belfry will not survive.   An interviewee said it was doubtful that any part of the cathedral will still be standing by morning. 850 years of history and liturgy lost. The true heart of Paris, gone...