Before the Restoration
Mobilisation
Archaeological
Analysis
The
Restoration Work
The Debate
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From 1844 the city of Carcassonne's fortifications and old cathedral were the object of one of the most ambitious restoration programmes of the XIXth Century. The project, under the direction of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, saved the |
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fortress from being abandoned and left in ruins, and restored it to the appearance the royal engineers had given it in the XIIIth Century. |
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