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Back in 2005, a group of restorers established a hidden workshop in Paris’s Panthéon and snuck into the building for a whole year to repair an antique clock. “The group managed to connect the hideaway to the electricity grid and install a computer…” Wild! [theguardian.com]

theguardian.comUndercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock'Cultural guerrillas' cleared of lawbreaking over secret workshop in Pantheon

2/10/26, 9:18 pm13 reposts44 likes

Susan Joy

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The clock at the center of the world ticks the future into the past🙄😇

Sebastian Peitsch 🇬🇱

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The funniest bit is that the subgroup of “Les UX” who did this in the pantheon played a CD with dog barking to distract Parisians from their noise reparing the clock at night and since it was two German dogs barking they called them Unter and Gunter and the group “Untergunter” or ~ “Underground”