Carpenters Restoring Notre Dame Face Challenge of Using Original Materials, Design September 21, 2020 By Elaine Ganley With precision and boundless energy, a team of carpenters used medieval techniques to raise up — by hand — a...
Notre Dame Restoration Halted by France’s Coronavirus Lockdown April 20, 2020 By Elaine Ganley Notre Dame Cathedral stands crippled and alone, locked in a dangerous web of warped scaffolding one year after a cataclysmic...
Notre Dame Fire Reveals Global Safety Lapse Over Dangers of Lead Dust December 23, 2019 By Thomas Adamson PARIS (AP) — It took a blaze that nearly destroyed Paris’ most famous cathedral to reveal a gap in global...
Notre-Dame Site Carries Risk of Lead Poisoning and Should Be Sealed, Say Paris Groups August 6, 2019 By Gregory Viscusi Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral should be fully sealed off while it is rebuilt because of the risk of lead poisoning, according...
AXA Confirms It Insured Some Notre-Dame Artworks for Several Million Euros April 25, 2019 French insurer AXA said on Wednesday that it had provided insurance coverage for a few artworks from Notre-Dame Cathedral for...
Architect Who Died 140 Years Ago Left Detailed Guide for Rebuilding Notre Dame April 24, 2019 By Raf Casert Eugene Viollet-le-Duc is still the man to go to when it comes to restoring Notre Dame, even though he died...
Notre Dame Fire Should Be Wake-Up Call for State of Other European Monuments April 23, 2019 By Raf Casert It’s a thin line where the patina of age on Europe’s countless monuments gives way to the onset of neglect....
Why It’s Difficult to Insure Iconic Properties Such as Notre Dame April 22, 2019 By Danica Kirka Rebuilding Notre Dame, the 800-year-old Paris cathedral devastated by fire last week, will cost billions of dollars as architects, historians...
Insurance Adjuster Reports 90% of Notre Dame Cathedral Treasure Saved from Fire April 17, 2019 By Noor Zainab Hussain Some 90 percent of the priceless relics and art works housed within the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral were saved from...
France’s AXA Insures 2 Notre Dame Contractors, Some Religious Artworks April 16, 2019 By Inti Landauro French insurance firm AXA said on Tuesday it provided insurance coverage for two of the contracting firms that were working...