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.
With the simplicity of spreading word of mouth online, this in effect is an accelerator to these earlier incarnations of fundraising and this form of campaign promotion.
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.