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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such throngs not only create wear and tear on the cathedral floor but, with that many people simply breathing, even raise the humidity to damaging levels. "I've actually seen rivulets of condensation running down the stained- glass windows," says Christian Dupavillon, director of patrimony for the French Ministry of Culture. Even the tourist industry is alarmed. "Will we have to create a Notre Dame II similar to the replica they were forced to build at Lascaux?" asked the trade daily Le Quotidien de Tourisme in an editorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tourism: Elbow-to-Elbow at the Louvre | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

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