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Another secular moment in France.

CHAGALL WINDOW SHATTERED IN FRANCE

August 14, 2008 (NYT) - Part of a stained-glass window by the artist Marc Chagall was shattered by vandals in France over the weekend, The Associated Press reported. Culture ministry officials said the glass had been smashed when thieves broke into the Saint-Étienne Cathedral [Cathédrale Saint-Charles-de-Borromé de Saint-Étienne] in Metz. A hole measuring 24 inches by 26 inches, above, was smashed in at the bottom of the 1963 Chagall window, which depicts a scene of Adam and Eve, according to Emmanuel Étienne, an architect for the culture ministry:

They didn’t take anything important, just souvenir medallions and brass crowns from statues.

The vandals also drew graffiti on the cathedral’s stones.

Cheap sacramentals being of less importance to the French Cultural Ministry than goods by a name artist with a ready market.

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