Notre-Dame needs a makeover, and hopes you can help
Paris
BROKEN gargoyles and fallen balustrades replaced by plastic pipes and wooden planks. Flying buttresses darkened by pollution and eroded by rainwater. Pinnacles propped up by beams and held together with straps.
Little of that deterioration is immediately visible to the millions of awe-struck tourists who visit the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris every year, many of them too busy admiring the intricately sculpted front to notice the wear and tear.
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