Word: chauvels
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After the war, Chauvel got money from the French government, set about reconstructing the cathedral in earnest. By last week, after six years of patient reconstruction work, citizens of Rouen could proudly announce that their cathedral was out of danger...
...save it, townsmen, under the leadership of Architect Albert Chauvel, felled pine trees from a nearby forest, dragged them to the cathedral to reinforce crumbling columns, collected bricks from wrecked houses to make emergency walls...
...reproduce destroyed sections as faithfully as possible, Chauvel had sent workmen to Chartres and Reims to learn what other church builders knew about medieval construction techniques. Scholars were commissioned to search out old books and manuscripts containing hints on gothic church building...
With his newly acquired knowledge Chauvel set up school in Rouen, taught his workmen to use old-style hand tools instead of mechanical saws in stonecutting. Thus, the new stone has the finely granulated look of the original. "This kind of surface softly reflects the light," said a Rouen expert, "whereas, with modern saws, we would have got a flat, shiny, modern surface." In similar spirit, the new timbers have been shaped with small axes, to give a delicately chiseled surface...
...Double Lock. This week began with the majority pressing its counteroffensive. France's Chauvel derided Malik's lies as a case of "pointing to a chair and calling it a table." Then India's Rau made an unexpected move. He suggested that the Council's six small powers form a committee to draft a Korean peace plan; he added that India would stick by her insistence that peace must depend on a withdrawal of the North Koreans to the 38th parallel. Malik, for once, had nothing...