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The French delegation, headed by conservative Architect Gaston Bardet, had a far different notion of how the "trash" might be eliminated. The church, Bardet proposed, should draw up a set of rules and regulations governing sacred art. Lavanoux opposed the resolution, saw it voted down. Few of the conferees believed that good religious art could ever be produced by rules.

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