In the US all you can get insurance wise for liability is $1 million. You'd have to get Lloyds of London to write an additional rider. They used to charge 15% of what you wanted as the premium.
I'll bet you that contractor was under-insured? From the look of it, it's WAY over $50million. Depends of the specs of what the Church and French Government would want. I can't see them permitting it rebuilt with wood.
Plus, it probably was built by a French ship builder contractor to begin with. The timbers and fasteners all are of that type of construction.
I don't see where anyone is going to want to do the job but first a plan needs to be approved. I personally think only portions of the stonework will be allowed to remain.
I would envision something like the USS Arizona memorial at Pearl as the final product. There is going to be lots of arguing and debate over this and probably will take 10 years before the plan is finalized?
I always found Gothic as morose. I don't know why Demons need to be part of a Christian church but might have been part of the fear of witches at the time? I do believe that Rosslyn Chapel is similar and of approximately the same time period?
I'm an Architect and a Contractor. Someone would have to be stuffing tens of millions of dollars at a time in barrels to take that on. No matter what you do, you are going to take major flack from very vocal public groups. I don't think it is worth it.
When George Steinbrenner was the owner of the Yankees, he finagled a deal with NYC that the old Yankee Stadium would be re-built for whatever it cost and the Contractor was GUARANTEED a 10% profit above and beyond that.
The reason being, no one really knew how to project a cost on the project.
Someone with a HUGE ego and feeling of self importance is going to be the one and there are very few qualified at that level in my opinion? Who knows? We'll see. Whatever the end result it will be controversial at best? Best of luck to them.
It's a shame but proof that nothing lasts forever. It had a good long run.