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Gargoyle tribute to Charlie Hebdo pair

Emily Sharpe
1 November 2015
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Jean “Cabu” Cabut and Georges Wolinski, two cartoonists who were murdered in the terrorist attack on the Paris offices of the satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January 2015, have been immortalised as gargoyles on the Tour de la Lanterne in La Rochelle. The carvings, part of a €1.2m project to restore the Medieval tower and former prison, depict a bespectacled Cabut with a pencil tucked behind his ear and Wolinski with two miniature women climbing up the sides of his head. The director of the restoration project decided to include the pair on the building’s exterior “to pay homage to them and all threatened artists around the world”, Frédéric Henri, a spokesman for the tower, told AFP.

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