巴黎真是個可怕的地方，她的蹤跡並無在我離去後消失，四處媒體三不五時就提醒我這個城市，彷彿要我不可忘了她，真的是想要避都避不開！

昨天無意在Time讀到這則新聞，一群組成為LES UX的團體，趁夜幕低垂時，潛入巴黎地下修復文化遺址。雖然這些人隨便亂碰遺蹟真的是膽大包天又瘋狂至極，不過能順利潛入禁閉的地下、不被發現，實在也有 兩把刷子，LES UX中甚至還有專家能把萬神殿裡高齡150歲的老鐘修好？！我覺得他們傳奇的行跡已經可以改編成電影或電視影集了:)。

突然回想到在巴黎時，也時常看到在維修的古蹟。當然這些是「正當光明」維修的遺蹟。但，不管是LES UX或是任何幫政府修復的專家，真的是謝謝你們，因為有你們努力，大家才有機會一次次目睹那些歷史上偉大的巨作和建築。感恩啦~

 

本來是要照獅子旁那一群的鴿子，卻意外照到後頭那明顯的鷹架

 

真的是很明顯的鷹架....因為是鮮黃色嘛

 

施工中的凡爾賽宮

 

不難看出是大工程的整修，鷹架和機具都出現了

 

整修到最後階段的鏡廳，美女修復專家

 

美女修復專家後頭是帥哥修復專家
果然是凡爾賽宮，專家不是俊男美女都不行 :)

 

金碧輝煌的宮殿中那像「沾濕的衛生紙」的天花板，明顯大方的展出於遊客面前......真有點滑稽

 

羅浮宮中的神秘人???

 

原來是某座雕像，包裹得還真仔細

 

還有這麼多東西在羅浮宮等著被整修

From The TimesSeptember 29, 2007

Adam Sage in Paris

By day, Lazar Kunstmann is a typically avant-garde Parisian, an urbane, well-spoken video film editor who hangs out in the fashionable Latin Quarter. By night he inhabits a strange and secret world with its base in the tunnels beneath the French capital – the world of the urban explorers.

Mr Kunstmann belongs to les UX, a clandestine network that is on a mission to discover and exploit the city’s neglected underworld. The urban explorers put on film shows in underground galleries, restore medieval crypts and break into monuments after dark to organise plays and readings. In the eyes of their supporters, they are the white knights of modern culture, renovating forgotten buildings and staging artistic events beyond the reach of a stifling civil service.

The authorities view them differently: as the dark side of the City of Light – irresponsible, paranoid subversives whose actions could serve as a model for terrorists. A police unit has been trained to track les UX through the sewers, catacombs and old quarries that are their pathways under Paris. Prosecutors have been instructed to file charges whenever feasible.

The stand-off is symbolic of French society: a rigorous bureaucracy on the surface with a bizarre subculture below.

Mr Kunstmann, a spokesman for the movement, met The Times last week in the back room of a bar in central Paris. Beside him sat a thin, austere-looking woman who sipped a beer, gave her name only as Lanso and barely said a word throughout the interview.

From time to time, however, she whispered into Mr Kunstmann’s ear and he relayed the message. “We are the counterpoint to an era where everything is slow and complicated,” he said. “It’s very difficult to get anything done through official channels. If you want to do it, you have to be clandestine.”

Mr Kunstmann said that les UX had 150 or so members divided into about ten branches.One group, which is all-female, specialises in “infiltration” – getting into museums after hours, finding a way through underground electric or gas networks and shutting down alarms. Another runs an internal message system and a coded, digital radio network accessible only to members.

A third group provides a database, a fourth organises subterranean shows and a fifth takes photographs of them. Mr Kunstmann refused to talk about the other groups.

He did, however, say that Lanso was the leader of a branch called the Untergunther – the name comes from a German record whose music served as an alarm on an early mission – which specialised in restoration. This group, whose members include architects and historians, rebuilt an abandoned 100-year-old French government bunker and renovated a 12th-century crypt, he said. They claim to be motivated by a desire to preserve Paris’s heritage.

Last year the Untergunther spent months hidden in the Pantheon, the Parisian mausoleum that holds France’s greatest citizens, where they repaired a clock that had been left to rust. Slipping in at closing time every evening – French television said that they had their own set of keys – they set up a workshop hidden behind mock wooden crates at the top of the monument. The security guards never found it. The Untergunther used a professional clockmaker, Jean-Baptiste Viot, to mend the 150-year-old mechanism.

When the clock began working again, officials were horrified. The Centre for National Monuments confirmed that the clock had been repaired but said that the authority had begun legal action against the Untergunther. Under official investigation for breaking and entry, its members face a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a €15,000 (￡10,500) fine.

“We could go down in legal history as the first people ever to be prosecuted for repairing a clock,” said Mr Kunstmann. But he was unrepentant.

“In any other country, a monument such as the Pantheon would be maintained in a perfect state. But not in France. Here, if we hadn’t restored the clock, no one else would have bothered.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2554240.ece