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          Guerrillas clandestinely time their movement in Paris clock
                                        
> Four members of an underground “cultural guerrilla” movement known as the
> Untergunther, whose purpose is to restore France's cultural heritage, were
> cleared on Friday of breaking into the 18th-century monument in a plot
> worthy of Dan Brown or Umberto Eco.
> 
> For a year from September 2005, under the nose of the Panthéon's
> unsuspecting security officials, a group of intrepid "illegal restorers"
> set up a secret workshop and lounge in a cavity under the building's famous
> dome. Under the supervision of group member Jean-Baptiste Viot, a
> professional clockmaker, they pieced apart and repaired the antique clock
> that had been left to rust in the building since the 1960s. Only when their
> clandestine revamp of the elaborate timepiece had been completed did they
> reveal themselves.
> 

Via tryss [1], “Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock [2]”

And speaking of clandestine construction [3], what's up with the Europeans?

[1] http://tryss.livejournal.com/278354.html
[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,2217067,00.html
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/11/26.2

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