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 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...
Government and Benefactors, Not Insurers, to Bear Cost of Notre Dame Rebuilding April 16, 2019 By Noor Zainab Hussain and Paul Arnold Major European insurers expect France to bear the bulk of the cost of rebuilding the Notre-Dame Cathedral after a fire...
Corporate, Individual Donations Pour In for Effort to Restore Notre Dame April 16, 2019 By Phil Serafino France’s luxury-goods tycoons are among the country’s wealthiest individuals and companies to pledge at least 600 million euros ($678 million)...