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A fire was declared on Saturday morning in the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the city of Nantes ( France ). Firefighters have come to this Gothic building to put out the flames. At the moment, the magnitude of the incident is unknown.

The fire broke out around 7:30 in the morning. The first images released by the BFMTV television channel show a great smoke rising from the windows and between the two towers of this cathedral, declared a historic building in 1862.

From Twitter , the firefighters asked the inhabitants of Nantes to avoid the cathedral sector and not to obstruct the work of the relief teams.

The Gothic cathedral, whose construction began in 1434 and ended in 1891, is the third building built on that site. The first cathedral was built in the 6th century and a second Roman cathedral was built in the 12th century.

A sinister story

Throughout its history, the cathedral has suffered several accidents. During World War II, the Allied bombings destroyed the sacristy and part of the cathedral ambulatory in June 1944.

In January 1972, an accidental fire caused by the torch of a worker working on the repair of the cathedral ceiling destroyed the cathedral's wooden frame. The building was totally restored.

The fire in the Cathedral of Nantes is reminiscent of that of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris , victim in April 2019 of the flames. French President Emmanuel Macron has set himself the ambitious goal of rebuilding Notre Dame Cathedral in five years, just in time for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The spire of Notre Dame Cathedral will be constructed identically to what it had been. before the incident.

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