Restoration site, Saint-Louis Barbican. Around 1872.

THE RESTORATION WORK THE RESTORATION SITE Hoisting engine, photographed by Léopold Verguet.  he work which was interrupted during the winter, was supervised on site by Guiraud Cals from Carcassonne, Viollet-le-Duc's assistant and the project inspector. The responsibility for the restoration work rested effectively on his shoulders. The architect came to Carcassonne once a year, usually in June or July, gave his orders and, when he left, gave enough details for the work in progress while other questions were dealt with in correspondence between the inspector and the Parisian architect. The work was put in the hands of local companies such as that of Jean Magné, as well as to specialised artists: sculptors and stone-cutters (Nelli, Perrin, Sage, Dubois…), blacksmiths, master glassworkers (Fourniol, Cambey). The blocks of sandstone for the restoration of the ramparts and towers were taken from local quarries while the slate for the roofs came from the Montagne Noire.

Chronology of work under  Viollet-le-Duc and his  successor Paul Boeswillwald  The old Saint-Nazaire  Saint-Celse Cathedral  The Narbonne Gate  The Saint-Nazaire Gate  The West Fortifications  The North Fortifications  The Restoration Site  After the Death of  Viollet-le-Duc :  Paul Boeswillwald   Hoisting engine and scaffolding on the east curtain wall of the castle, 1909 (detail).