If I moved a bunch of my valuable shit out of my house a few days before it somehow accidentally burned down, law enforcement and my insurance company would be suspicious, I think.

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They were maintaining Notre Dame at the time. Didn't you see all of the scaffolding around the building? There's a good excuse for this.

Though, if you don't take the excuse into consideration (or think it's insufficient by itself), here are some questions you might want to tackle.

Simple

These don't require much mathematical knowledge, but are likely to lead to false conclusions. If you want to tackle these, please provide the data you gathered; that'll make it easier for other people to answer other questions.

  • How often is an artefact in an old church usually restored?
  • How often is an artefact in a Notre Dame-category cathedral usually restored?
  • What's the probability per unit time (e.g. per month) that a given artefact will be restored during this time?
  • How does this probability per time change when the church / cathedral is being renovated / repaired?

Advanced

These questions are more likely to give a useful answer, however we're reaching the limit of my ability to ask good questions. (I'm not great at stats.)

  • Considering the distribution over different artefacts, how many standard deviations is this event from the norm?
    • Also considering the cathedral "class"?
    • Also considering the renovations?
  • Is the previous question even meaningful? i.e. is the distribution a normal distribution? If not:
    • What is the distribution?
    • Is there a correlation with popularity / legitimacy / importance / earned revenue?

Expert

Seeing as I'm not an expert, I can't provide any of these. Sorry.