Histoire des souterrains secrets de Paris
Fabrizio de Gennaro
Histoire des souterrains secrets de Paris de la Révolution à l'Affaire de la Cagoule
ISBN 9788897982982, Digital Index Editeur, Modena, 2013
Paris is known and loved above all on the "surface". Generations of tourists have walked its streets and boulevards, visited its museums, admired its monuments.
But beneath the city, below the sewers and below the metro lines themselves, another city lies hidden.
Countless galleries run 15-25 metres down, sometimes on two or three levels and for almost 300 kilometres beneath the city intra-muros: the Catacombes de Paris. Originally old stone quarries, from which the materials for building countless monuments and houses were extracted.
Today these underground passages offer an unexpected, previously unavailable chance to discover an old and forgotten Paris. Because these galleries have preserved traces and evidence of past history and of the many events for which Paris has been the stage in the course of History. Traces that have disappeared from the surface.