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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 9509106, member: 8267"]It is fitting that this discussion has come around to Notre Dame. I believe much of the modern western approach to preservation and conservation has roots in the work of Prosper Mérimée, French author and <font size="4">Inspector-General of Historical Monuments (1833–1852). </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">"Mérimée warned his conservators to avoid the "false-ancient": he ordered them to carry out 'the reproduction of that which manifestly existed. Reproduce with prudence the parts destroyed, where there exist certain traces. Don't give yourself to inventions... When the traces of the ancient state are lost, the wisest is to copy the analog motifs in a building of the same type in the same province'."</font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper_M%C3%A9rim%C3%A9e" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper_M%C3%A9rim%C3%A9e" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper_Mérimée</a></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">He is the one who hired Eugène Viollet-le-Duc to do the restoration work on Notre Dame in the mid 19th century.</font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Viollet-le-Duc" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Viollet-le-Duc" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Viollet-le-Duc</a></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 9509106, member: 8267"]It is fitting that this discussion has come around to Notre Dame. I believe much of the modern western approach to preservation and conservation has roots in the work of Prosper Mérimée, French author and [SIZE=4]Inspector-General of Historical Monuments (1833–1852). "Mérimée warned his conservators to avoid the "false-ancient": he ordered them to carry out 'the reproduction of that which manifestly existed. Reproduce with prudence the parts destroyed, where there exist certain traces. Don't give yourself to inventions... When the traces of the ancient state are lost, the wisest is to copy the analog motifs in a building of the same type in the same province'." [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper_M%C3%A9rim%C3%A9e[/URL] He is the one who hired Eugène Viollet-le-Duc to do the restoration work on Notre Dame in the mid 19th century. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Viollet-le-Duc[/URL][/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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