PARIS, (AFP) -
Europeans counting the cost in lives and damage to property of the worst storm on record faced a second night of chaos on Monday as violent winds returned to menace the battered continent.
The death toll had already reached 82 when new storms were reported in France, which bore the brunt of Sunday's winds and has seen unprecedented damage to its cultural treasures.
Hurricane-force winds wreaked havoc as they swept across France, Germany, Britain, Switzerland, Italy and Spain on Sunday.
The weather service in France warned that a new storm was hitting the south of the country late Monday, with snow likely.
Authorities on the French west coast, already battling the effects of a massive oil-slick, said 150 kilometer (90 mile) an hour winds had returned Monday night.
In the southwest of France, regional governors warned residents to stay at home until the second wave of storms had passed.
The first front claimed 40 victims in France alone, according to a provisional count by officials.
More than 900,000 households remained without electricity in France, the state electricity firm EDF announced, and there were widespread power cuts in Germany and Switzerland.
The list of damaged buildings reads like an A-Z of the French capital's historic buildings: the Versailles chateau, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Pantheon and the Sainte Chapelle along with six historic churches suffered extensive damage.
An estimated 10,000 trees, including one planted by Napoleon Bonaparte, were blown down in the grounds of Versailles, chief administrator Hubert Astier told AFP. Strips of lead were torn off the roof of the chateau itself.
150,000 trees -- half the total -- were uprooted in the capital's Vincennes and Boulogne woods.