“We are moving, rue de Valois, in an area where subjective and qualitative aspects are pioneered and evaded attempts to make numerical assessments. Streamlining budgetary choices can lead to a better overall approach to costs, advantages and disadvantages, with a predictable outcome that can only be favourable to the Ministry of Cultural Affairs”. It was through these words that in 1969 the director of Architecture Michel Denieul expressed his willingness to apply hist monuments...