French to fix fault lines in Haitian artwork

French military rescue workers stand by the painting "Serment des ancetres" (Oath of the Ancestors), by Guillaume Guillon Lethiere, at the presidential palace in Port au Prince, Haiti.

France's Culture Minister says Louvre art restoration experts will

repair the 1822 painting found in the rubble of the presidential palace after the January12 earthquake. The painting depicts a meeting between two of the fathers of Haitian independence.

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