The mysteries of Paris – In the bowels of the capital
Sewers, quarries, catacombs … If we know the abundance of Parisian basements, we often ignore that they are also lined with historic shelters.
By François-Guillaume Lorrain
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NOTWe are practically under a district town hall. Rendez-vous was first in a student grocery store, the first in Paris, where products are sold at one-fifth of their retail price. We find Gilles Thomas there.
A few months ago, he had already served us as a guide for the sanctuary careers of the Cochin hospital. We see him again this time on the occasion of the publication of his book Paris under Paris (EPA), beautifully illustrated by his sidekick Gaspard Duval, who has achieved small lighting prodigies in places that are by definition poorly exposed to daylight. Sewers, water tanks, quarries, subways, catacombs, underground town planning… Nothing of this “underground” is foreign to Gilles Thomas, Provinois who made himself …
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