The way it was. (French architecture)

The Economist (US) | November 10, 1990 | Copyright

SAVING a cathedral from ruin is almost as endless and controversial a task as building one in the first place. In Toulouse, 130 years after Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-leDuc began restoring the Romanesque basilica of Saint-Sernin, work is under way to put it back to what it looked like before 1860. This "derestoration" project has aroused just as much local indignation as, in its time, Viollet-le-Duc's did. In both cases, people liked the building as it was.

When Stendhal visited Toulouse in 1838, he admired "the magnificent Romanesque church with its smooth simple face ...

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