Paris beneath the surface
The core of today’s Paris sewer network was built in the 1850s under Baron Haussmann. By 1878, the tunnel system had already reached a length of 600 kilometres.
Victor Hugo gave this sewer system a lasting literary place in Les Misérables. A scene from the 1957 film starring Jean Gabin is also set here.
Film clip · French audio, English subtitles
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