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...Then there is the much maligned Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, the 19th-century designer of the spire who was, Poirier convincingly argues, a committed and knowledgeable defender of Gothic art, rather than a man...
...measures 127m by 48m and the main nave is 43m high 1789 French Revolution starts, after which the church is used as a warehouse and falls into neglect 1791 Most of its bells taken down and melted to make cannon...
...‘Khovanskygate: A National Enquiry’, April 22-May 2, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham; birminghamopera.org.uk...
...The appeal of driving a multi-tonne monster with a powerful cannon that blows up anything and everything – trams, buildings and other tanks to start with – has struck a chord....
...I’d watched them being blown away with water cannons and lynchings and all that. Why everything seemed to change was that you could no longer believe in any institution....
...In Eugene O’Neill’s play Where the Cross is Made, for example, a character’s right arm is amputated at the shoulder, yet he’s later described resting on his elbows with his head in his hands....
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