Barack Obama has sympathised with the people of France in the wake of the devastating Notre Dame fire.

Barack Obama has sympathised with the people of France in the wake of the devastating Notre Dame fire.

The fire began on Monday afternoon and quickly spread through the 850-year-old building. Efforts by firefighters to put the fire out had little effect as the fire raged on for hours. There were fears that priceless artefacts and objects of cultural and historic significance have been lost.

The fire has now been "brought under control" and donations are already being made towards rebuilding the historic site. He wrote..

Sympathizing with the people of France, former US president Barack Obama shared a photo of him and his family in the Notre Dame cathedral, Paris, in 2009 and wrote: