– The provocative message hidden by Italian workers
A note was slipped into a niche in the Lausanne church during work in the 1970s. It was found during the restoration of the building.
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Restoring a building holds many surprises. Ancient traces reappear, treasures are revealed. And, sometimes, words emerge from the past… Last summer, in Lausanne, the team of specialists at the bedside of the Notre-Dame-du-Valentin basilica, built in 1835 by the architect Henri Perregaux, made a discovery unusual.