MONUMENTS DAMAGED
SMOKE AND SQOT IN PARIS. More damage has been done to the stones of Paris mounments, such as Notre Darns and the Sainte Chapelle, in the last 50 years by smoke and soot than by all the weathering of previous ages, it was stated in a recent report tov the Academy of Beaux Arts. French experts aua seeking some sort of polish' or wash that can be used on the stone to protect it. At the _ present rate of disintegration most of the mounments of Paris will have to be entirely restored in the course of the century, it was said. Even monuments as far removed from maunfaeturing centres as Chartres Cathedral are suffering. Marble statues such as those of the Versailles Gardens are fairly easily cleaned and kept 'up, but the statues in other kinds of stone become badly streaked in the cleaning process.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 275, 15 July 1932, Page 3
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