The beautiful old Breton town of Saint-Malo was also rebuilt "historically", but not "exactly" - where they could not find original plans or reuse stones from b

The beautiful old Breton town of Saint-Malo was also rebuilt "historically", but not "exactly" - where they could not find original plans or reuse stones from buildings, they recreated them in a style that they felt was a best approximation of how it had looked before. (That was after the Wehrmacht made a holdout of the town in August 1944, and the Americans dealt with it by expediently bombing 80% of the town to rubble.) [] https://paysages.ille-et-vilaine.fr/IMG/jpg/5_3_stmaloarretche_cle811e1e.jpg https://paysages.ille-et-vilaine.fr/IMG/jpg/5_3_stmaloarretc...