France no longer has trees tall enough to rebuild Notre-Dame's roof as it was

When Notre-Dame Cathedral is rebuilt, it most likely won't look quite the same.

An aerial view of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on Tuesday.

That's because France no longer has trees tall enough to make its roof as it was, Bertrand de Feydeau, the vice president of the preservation group Fondation du Patrimoine, told France Info on Tuesday.

"We will have to implement new technologies that will leave the appearance of the cathedral as we love it," he said in French.

The cathedral is 427 by 157 feet, with a 115-foot roof. While the facade that visitors could see from the nave — the central part of the church — was stone, the beams above it were wood. The fire on Monday started in the attic and destroyed most of the roof.

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