question: Notre Dame is getting lots of donations to rebuild and they say it's not enough. Wouldn't a world landmark be covered in insurance for catastrophe like this?
comment: From my understanding, neither the maximum amount of insurance possible on the church, nor the insurance bond of the construction company doing the restorations, come anywhere close to the BILLIONS it will take to rebuild.
passages: BULLET::::- The 1978 Palace of Versailles bombing severely damaged parts of the Palace of Versailles, including several priceless pieces of art. The palace was rebuilt and reopened to the public within four years.
  
  BULLET::::- On 15 April 2019, the roof of the Notre-Dame de Paris caught fire, severely damaging the bell towers and resulting in the total collapse of the central spire and roof. The fire is believed to be caused by the ongoing restoration, though an investigation is ongoing.
  
  Section::::Germany.
   On 15 April 2019, just before 18:20 CEST, a structure fire broke out beneath the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral in Paris. By the time it was extinguished, the building's spire and most of its roof had been destroyed and its upper walls severely damaged; extensive damage to the interior was prevented by its stone vaulted ceiling, which largely contained the burning roof as it collapsed. Many works of art and religious relics were moved to safety early in the emergency, but others suffered some smoke damage, and some exterior art was damaged or destroyed. The cathedral's two pipe organs, and its three 13th-century rose windows, suffered little to no damage. Three emergency workers were injured.
   In December 2016, 170 years after the North Towers dismantlement and following several false starts, the Ministry of Culture again proposed its reconstruction after concluding it was technically feasible—albeit without public funding. An association, "Suivez la flèche" ("Follow the Spire"), chaired by Patrick Braouezec, has since been established to support the reconstruction, with the aim of raising the necessary funds by opening the reconstruction works to the general public, along the model of the Guédelon Castle. In March 2018 the culture ministry signed an accord with the association, officially launching the reconstruction project, with works expected to commence in May 2020. 
   Section::::Sights.
  
  Three medieval buildings remain on the Île de la Cité (east to west):
  
  BULLET::::- Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, built from 1163 on the site of a church dedicated to Saint Étienne, which in turn occupied a sacred pagan site of Roman times. During the French Revolution the cathedral was badly damaged, then restored by Viollet-le-Duc. The Cathedral was heavily damaged, but not totally destroyed, in a fire on 15 April 2019, while undergoing the initial stages of a massive renovation- materials from the renovation are currently believed to have started the devastating, large fire.
   These temporary measures will remain in place until more permanent solutions can be determined. Various studies are under way to determine with more assurance what can be done to preserve the structure. Columbia University is performing a study on a three-dimensional model constructed using laser scans of the building in an attempt to determine the weaknesses in the building and remedies.
  
  Section::::Interior.
   Adjacent apartment buildings were evacuated due to concern about possible collapse, but on 19 April the fire brigade ruled out that risk.
  
  One firefighter and two police officers were injured.
  
  Section::::Fire.:Damage.
  
  Most of the wood/metal roof and the spire of the cathedral was destroyed, with about one third of the roof remaining. The remnants of the roof and spire fell atop the stone vault underneath, which forms the ceiling of the cathedral's interior.
   Some contents were moved by a human chain of emergency workers and civil servants.
  
  Many valuables that were not removed also survived, but the state of many others remained unknown as of 16 April.
  
  Lead joints in some of the 19th-century stained-glass windows melted, but the three major rose windows, dating to the 13th century, were undamaged. One weakened window may need to be dismantled for safekeeping.
  
  Several pews were destroyed and the vaulted arches were blackened by smoke, though the church's main cross and altar survived, along with the statues surrounding it.
   This cost does not include damage to any of the artwork or artefacts within the cathedral; art insurers said any pieces on loan from other museums would have been insured, but the works owned by the cathedral would not have been insurable.
   Since 1905, France's cathedrals (including Notre-Dame) have been owned by the state, which is self-insured. Some costs might be recovered through insurance coverage if the fire is found to have been caused by contractors working on the site. The French insurer AXA provided insurance coverage for two of the contracting firms working on Notre-Dame's restoration before the blaze which devastated the cathedral. AXA also provided insurance coverage for some of the relics and artworks in the cathedral.
   While undergoing renovation and restoration, the roof of Notre-Dame caught fire on the evening of 15 April 2019. Burning for around 15 hours, the cathedral sustained serious damage, including the destruction of the flèche (the timber spire over the crossing) and most of the lead-covered wooden roof above the stone vaulted ceiling.
  
  Section::::History.
   other options include rebuilding in the original lead and wood,
  
  rebuilding with modern materials not visible from the outside (like the reinforced concrete trusses at Reims Cathedral),
  
  or a combination of restored old elements and newly designed ones.
   A similar incident occurred in 2006 during restoration of Troitsky Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia. An accident during its restoration caused a fire in which the main dome and a smaller dome burned. Fortunately the main church was saved and the domes were rebuilt.
  
  Section::::The Third Church 1986–2018.
   Extensive attention had been given to the risk of fire at the cathedral. The Paris Fire Brigade drilled regularly to prepare for emergencies there, including on-site exercises in 2018; a firefighter was posted to the cathedral each day; and fire wardens checked conditions beneath the roof three times daily.
  
  Section::::Fire.
  
  Fire broke out in the attic beneath the cathedral's roof at 18:18. At 18:20 the fire alarm sounded and guards evacuated the cathedral;
   On January 17, 2014, Notre Dame du Haut became the target of a break-in. A concrete collection box was thrown outside, and one of the stained-glass windows, also designed by Le Corbusier and the only one on the chapel to carry his signature, was broken.
  
  Section::::Site.
   Our works in stone, in paint, in print are spared, some of them for a few decades, or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash. The triumphs and the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life. We’re going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. Our songs will all be silenced – but what of it? Go on singing. Maybe a man’s name doesn’t matter all that much.
   While Macron hoped the cathedral could be restored in time for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, architects expect the work could take from twenty to forty years, as any new structure would need to balance restoring the look of the original building, using wood and stone sourced from the same regions used in the original construction, with the structural reinforcement required for preventing a similar disaster in the future.
  
  There is discussion of whether to reconstruct the cathedral in modified form.
  
  Rebuilding the roof with titanium sheets and steel trusses has been suggested;
   BULLET::::- Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris On 15 April 2019 the cathedral's roof caught fire, leading to the destruction of the 12th-century roof structure and the 19th-century spire.
  
  BULLET::::- Poitiers Cathedral The organ was destroyed in a fire on 25 December 1681.
  
  BULLET::::- Quimper Cathedral One tower burned in 1620.
   France's cathedrals have been owned by the state since 1905, and are not privately insured. The heritage conservation organisation estimated the damage in the hundreds of millions of euros; but, according to President Robert Leblanc, losses from the fire are not expected to substantially impact the private insurance industry.
  
  European art insurers stated the cost would be similar to ongoing renovations of the Palace of Westminster in London, which currently is estimated around €7billion.
   Spire of Notre-Dame de Paris
  
  The spire of Notre-Dame de Paris was located above the cross-section of the building's transept.
  
  The Cathedral has had two spires. The first was built between 1220 and 1230. It eventually became so damaged that is was removed in the late 18th century. The second was put into place by the French Architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1859, and destroyed in a violent fire on 15 April 2019.
  
  Section::::History.
  
  Section::::History.:The original spire.
   , donations of over €1billion have been pledged for the cathedral's reconstruction, at least €880million of that in less than a day after Macron's appeal.
  
  Pledges €10M and over include:
  
  There have been many additional pledges for smaller, or undisclosed, amounts. 
   BULLET::::- Le Mans Cathedral A church dating to 1160 on the site burned, together with much of Le Mans, on 3 September 1134, with a second fire in 1137. The chevet survived, and a new nave was constructed. The chevet was eventually rebuilt between 1217 and 1254.
  
  BULLET::::- Metz Cathedral Fireworks caused a fire in 1877.
  
  BULLET::::- Nantes Cathedral A fire on 28 January 1972 extensively damaged the roof, requiring a full restoration of the cathedral's interior.
  
  BULLET::::- Noyon Cathedral was built following a fire in 1131.
   BULLET::::- 2019 – The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire.
  
  Section::::Births.
  
  BULLET::::- 68 BC – Gaius Maecenas, Roman politician (d. 8 BC)
  
  BULLET::::- 1282 – Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1329)
  
  BULLET::::- 1367 – Henry IV of England (d. 1413)
  
  BULLET::::- 1442 – John Paston, English noble (d. 1479)
  
  BULLET::::- 1452 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (d. 1519)
  
  BULLET::::- 1469 – Guru Nanak, the first Sikh guru (d. 1539)
  
  BULLET::::- 1552 – Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician and astronomer (d. 1626)
   Some sections of this vaulting collapsed in turn, allowing debris from the burning roof to fall to the marble floor below, but most sections remained intact due to the use of rib vaulting, greatly reducing damage to the cathedral's interior and objects within.
   Also on 25 July, the chief architect of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral told media that he feared that the heat wave could cause the cathedral's vaulted ceilings, damaged in an April 2019 fire, to collapse. While he indicated the stone walls were still stable for the time being, he explained that the walls were still saturated with water sprayed by firefighters during the blaze, and rapid drying from the extreme temperatures could adversely affect the stability of the structure.
   On 17 April 2019 the French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe anounched the launch of an international architecture competition to design a new spire. It is in part a competition to define the nature of the reconstruction effort and answer the question: Should the new spire be identical to the old, or a new design entirely? 
  
presuppositions: Insurance coverage would be sufficient to provide funds to rebuild the church. Insurance should be able to cover the repairs to Notre Dame.
corrections: The maximum amount of insurance coverage would not provide sufficient funds to rebuild the church. The insurance does not come close to the billions it will take to rebuild Notre Dame.
raw_presuppositions: Insurance coverage would be sufficient to provide funds to rebuild the church. Insurance should be able to cover the repairs to Notre Dame.
raw_corrections: The maximum amount of insurance coverage would not provide sufficient funds to rebuild the church. The insurance does not come close to the billions it will take to rebuild Notre Dame.