The present state of the cathedral owes much to Eugane Viollet-le-Duc, who from 1845 to 1863 painstakingly restored it following the ravages of the 18th century, caused more by pre-Revolutionary meddlers than by revolutionaries who stripped it of religious symbols.
The revolutionaries didn't succeed to steal the religious symbols.
mnli hypothesis: The revolutionaries didn't succeed to steal the religious symbols. premise: The present state of the cathedral owes much to Eugane Viollet-le-Duc, who from 1845 to 1863 painstakingly restored it following the ravages of the 18th century, caused more by pre-Revolutionary meddlers than by revolutionaries who stripped it of religious symbols.