'My heart goes out to Paris:' Notre Dame tragedy unites much of the world in shock
By Rick Noack Rick Noack Foreign affairs reporter focusing on Europe and international security Email Bio Follow April 16 at 7:03 AM BERLIN — Europe and the rest of the world were united in shock on Monday evening, as images of the burning Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris flooded social media and captivated TV audiences.
Pope Francis watched the Catholic Church’s French symbol go up in flames “with shock and sadness,” the Vatican said. A spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel tweeted out the term “Fluctuat nec mergitur” — Latin for “she is rocked by the waves, but does not sink,” a long-held slogan of Paris. In the United States, the view of a burning Notre Dame Cathedral resulted in rare agreement among the two 2016 presidential candidates. “So horrible to watch,” President Trump commented. “My heart goes out to Paris,” Hillary Clinton wrote.
But as world leaders emphasized the historic significance of Notre Dame, some commentators pointed at other historic events to justify feelings of schadenfreude — sparking a fierce backlash on social media. For many Chinese, the burning of Notre Dame evoked a painful episode in the country’s history: the torching of the Old Summer Palace by French and British troops in 1860 during the Second Opium War.
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