How France is leveraging a lottery to finance historic preservation
PBS News Hour - World
English - January 10, 2020 23:25 - ★★★★ - 79 ratingsNews world news current events newshour television radio media Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
From the Eiffel Tower to the Palace of Versailles, France is famous for iconic monuments and other structures. But the country also faces a large and growing challenge with protecting and preserving its lesser-known historic sites, many of which have suffered decades or even centuries of neglect. Jeffrey Brown reports from France on an experiment in raising new funds to support the cause.