ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the past to compare and classify its phenomena and to construct its veritable history. For architects who pioneered and developed the modern movement, the architectural theory of Viollet-le-Duc was useful, precisely because it helped them to break free of the historical past and the theoretical tradition of earlier architecture. The chapter presents the argument, based on the concept of a model as realized by Viollet-le-Duc's Gothic example, an apt instrument for different restoration projects of an edifice. It also presents the principles set forth, based on Viollet-le-Duc's concept of restoration and historic preservation, should not be forgotten when it is a question of a monument as important. In the Egyptian Society of Political Science, Statistics and Legislation, one cannot operate with too much prudence and discretion. Architectural style has to be done with a reverent discretion.
