The Notre Dame inferno has made international headlines as the world reacted in horror to the disaster.
The huge fire sparked a wave of solidarity with France across the globe as newspaper’s dedicated their front pages to the shocking scenes in Paris.
Many carried dramatic images of the famous spire collapsing as the fire raged, alongside eye-catching headlines.
They included one in a daily in Argentina, which said: ‘The heart of France burns and the world cries’ and another in Italy comparing it to ‘The September 11 of Christian Europe.’
In France, La Croix, a daily Catholic paper, carried the headline: ‘Heart in ashes’ with an editorial that said the nation ‘suddenly felt its heart shake to see a church aflame.’
It adds: ‘The cathedral in Paris clearly has a specific place in the collective consciousness, in France, in Europe and in the world.’
Le Figaro, one of the oldest daily newspapers in France, carries the headline ‘Disaster’
La Parisien uses the headline ‘Our Lady of Tears’ and features nine page of images and reports
In France, La Croix, a daily Catholic paper in France, carried the headline: ‘Heart in ashes’. Daily paper ‘Libération,’ also known as ‘Libé,’ utilized a play on the French word ‘Drame,’ which translates to drama
La Nacion in Argentina went with ‘The Heart of France burns and the world cries’
Elsewhere in Europe, Italian daily il Giornale described it as ‘The September 11 of Christian Europe.’ El Pais in Spain has the headline ‘Flames devastate Notre Dame, a symbol of European culture’
The Portuguese daily Diario de Noticias features an image of the famous spire on fire, with the words Ardeu da humanidade, that translates as ‘Burned humanity’
Italian daily La Repubblica features an image of the spire collapsing in flames with the words: The world upset that Notre Dame is gone’
Germany’s Der Tagesspiegel writes alongside an image of the inferno: ‘Notre Dame in flames’
Another French daily, La Parisien uses the headline ‘Our Lady of Tears’ and Le Figaro, one of the biggest selling daily newspapers, went with ‘Disaster’.
The front page carries the words: ‘Faced with this scene of loss, accounts of solidarity and sadness have flocked from across the world.’
And Liberation features a dramatic image of the cathedral ablaze with the words ‘Our tragedy.’
Elsewhere in Europe, Italian daily il Giornale described it as ‘The September 11 of Christian Europe.’
The inferno made headlines across most US newspapers. The Chicago Tribune using most of its front page with a picture of the blaze and the headline ‘Notre Dame Burns’ The Dallas Morning News went simply with ‘Paris icon burns’
The blaze also made the front pages of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, describing it as ‘Fire Mauls Paris’s Beloved Notre-Dame alongside dramatic images of the spire collapsing
Belgium’s De Standaard covered the front page with a picture of the spire collapsing.
Also in Belgium, Het Belang Van Limburg declared ‘Paris weeps’ and the Gazet van Antwerpen went with ‘The sorrow of France’.
El Pais in Spain has the headline ‘Flames devastate Notre Dame, a symbol of European culture’.
And in Germany Der Tagesspiegel writes alongside an image of the inferno: ‘Notre Dame in flames’
Peruvian newspaper El Comercio featured an image of smoke billowing from the burning cathedral with the headline: ‘Notre Dame burns’
In the US the blaze also made the front pages of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
The New York Times describes it as ‘Fire Mauls Paris’s Beloved Notre-Dame’ alongside dramatic images of the spire collapsing.
In South America, Peruvian newspaper El Comercio featured an image of smoke billowing from the burning cathedral with the headline: ‘Notre Dame burns.’
La Nacion in Argentina featured one of the most eye-catching headlines and went with ‘The Heart of France burns and the world cries.’
And the largest newspaper in Argentina, Clarin, simply went with: ‘Paris will no longer be the same.’
Publico in Portugal had the headline ‘Our Lady of Europe’ and like many other used an image of the spire ablaze
Belgian newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen went with ‘The sorrow of France’. The largest newspaper in Argentina, Clarin, had the headline: ‘Paris will no longer be the same’
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