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After the war, all the church's stained glass windows were blown out. All except the two Renaissance windows in La Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, which had been removed - what a happy coincidence! - just before the hostilities. For years, the openings were blocked with boards, with two major drawbacks: the church was plunged into darkness, and it was no longer protected against humidity. This situation was a godsend for swallows and bats, who found shelter in the monument.

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From August 19 to 31, 1944, the American army launched an offensive against the German army on the area covering the current Vexin Regional Natural Park: these fights are named "Battle of the Vexin". This was the only battle where armored vehicles from both sides clashed.

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Dendrochronological dating (from the Greek dendron, tree, and chronos, time) is a method of dating a building by studying the growth rings of the tree trunks used for the frame.

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" Instructions for the conservation, maintenance and restoration of diocesan buildings, and particularly cathedrals".

This is the title of the publication that was distributed in 1848 to the architects of diocesan buildings.

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Since the 19th century, several fortuitous discoveries around the Notre-Dame church and inside it have revealed the existence of a Merovingian necropolis (*).

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