When the Germans took Paris, they melted down statues of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Hugo, many another prize Paris sculpture. The bronze went into Nazi cannons and tanks.
Last week the realistic Paris Municipal Commission of Fine Arts took a quick look at history, the daily papers, and UNO, decided that replicas of the destroyed statuary should be made in stone, to thwart future pillagers.
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