Scores of the relics that survived were taken to the Louvre Museum, what was lost the cathedral's spire, large parts of its roof and it's ancient vaulted ceiling.
And an Italian court has ruled that one of Leonard da Vinci's most famous drawings can be loaned to the Louvre Museum in Paris for an exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of the artist's death.
The Eiffel Tower and the river boats, not far from there the Sacre-Coeur, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre Museum all closed, not to mention restaurants and cafes.
Even as an avid art collector, King Frances I probably never imagined the museum the Louvre would become, or that it would be shutdown more than four centuries later because of a disease pandemic.