Owing to these amounts, a significant return on investment should be expected by French taxpayers in the form of spreading the French culture around the globe.
Volunteers - many of whom were evacuated from their homes as the flames ravaged the area - will create ponds to form natural barriers to try to reduce the risk of fires spreading.
Even many Germans who back a Holocaust memorial in principle question the form it is most likely to take a labyrinth of some 2, 500 concrete pillars spreading across a plot of 20, 000 square metres between the Brandenburg Gate and the (unmarked) site of Hitler's bunker.