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Philippe Lopez
AFP / Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt

The inferno of Notre Dame

Tuesday 16 April 2019

As Notre Dame burned, and thousands spilled onto the streets and quais of Paris to watch the spectacle, AFP journalists were recording the historical moments from every which angle during the 15 hours that it took some 400 firefighters to put out the flames ravaging the 850-year-old structure. Here are a few of their stories.

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