Notre Dame will be fine. Sadly, no, it won't. The area where the fire looks worst was already deteriorating significantly -- if you visited in recent years, yo

Notre Dame will be fine. Sadly, no, it won't. The area where the fire looks worst was already deteriorating significantly -- if you visited in recent years, you would have seen heavy duty nets and the like to control damaged masonry, for example -- and you have a lot of materials that are either combustible or at the very least susceptible to heat damage of one kind or another. One of the great architectural wonders is falling apart before our eyes, and it is just very, very sad. [Edit: Shortly after I wrote this, the spire fell. A spokesman for the cathedral has confirmed that they do not expect any of the timber interior to survive the fire. So, so sad.]