Four members of an underground “cultural guerrilla” movement known as
the Untergunther, whose purpose is to restore France's cultural heritage,
were cleared on Friday of breaking into the 18th-century monument in a plot
worthy of Dan Brown or Umberto Eco.
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.
Via tryss, Undercover
restorers fix Paris landmark's clock
And speaking of clandestine
construction, what's up with the Europeans?
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