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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock

For a year from September 2005, under the nose of the Panthéon's unsuspecting security officials, a group of intrepid "illegal restorers" set up a secret workshop and lounge in a cavity under the building's famous dome. Under the supervision of group member Jean-Baptiste Viot, a professional clockmaker, they pieced apart and repaired the antique clock that had been left to rust in the building since the 1960s. Only when their clandestine revamp of the elaborate timepiece had been completed did they reveal themselves.

This may be the same folks who were showing movies below Paris. Via Boing Boing
Prof. Hex at 9:43 AM
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