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Old Posted Oct 30, 2019, 5:15 PM
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^ Right now, there are not enough stonecutters to keep on doing similar things. This is kind of old-fashioned.
The guy went to boulevard Saint-Germain but apparently didn't have time to scroll the little streets all around.
Let's take rue Danton, for instance.

https://goo.gl/maps/pjFgAjAjmN7SrvXm7

There is plenty of stuff like this from the 19th century or earlier here, but do you realize how many stonecutters it took to build all these things? I can't figure it out, myself. It was just a completely different era. That kind of arts and crafts is harder and harder to find nowadays.
Alhough I recently saw a report that showed that fine craftsmanship was getting back in fashion here, as we realized that not everyone could or even should be any engineer.
So if you like old cut stone, there's still hope for you.

That won't delight local modernists, however. Cause they find this sort of things overly garish and backward.
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