... in the abbey of Fontevraud, not far from Tours, in France.What is restoration ? I often wonder ... it is a marvellous thing because without full time conservation efforts we would lose most of the marvels the past has left us.
But when I walk in Carcassonne, I often wonder what the city really looked like in the Middle Ages. What we see now is a Viollet-le-Duc impression of what it should have looked like. I often wonder : if someone from the fourteenth century were to come back : would he/she recognize the place ?
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Restoration is an unnatural process. Nothing lasts forever.You cannot continue restoring restorations.
On the other side : imagine our world without its precious retored buildings and works of art ...
Viollet-le-Duc, inventor of medieval France.
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