The George Cross that was awarded posthumously to a Second World War spy has gone on display in a new exhibition in London. Noor Inayat Khan served in occupied Paris with the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) before ultimately giving…
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Among the objects on show are the pipes from the cathedral’s great organ and a stained-glass panel from the cloister of the sacristy
Following their discovery by a team from Inrap last year, the coffins were sent to the forensic institute of Toulouse University Hospital for further investigation.
Reconstruction of the collapsed stone vault in the north transept of the cathedral has now been completed.
Although none of the stained-glass windows were destroyed or damaged by the fire, many of them, already dusty, were exposed to smoke and soiled as a result.
Among the discoveries were a large number of fragments of Notre-Dame de Paris’ lost medieval rood screen.
Viollet-le-Duc needed connections: he had elected not to study architecture, preferring to learn on the job.