Atlas Du Paris Souterrain 2Ed

The underground Paris runs for hundreds of kilometers. Quarry galleries, medieval crypts, catacombs, Haussmann sewers, metro and other railway works, passive defense shelters, various technical galleries... the mysterious world of the underground keeps the memory of history while playing the backstage of the City of Light whose complex machinery it shelters, in the shadow. Unlike the city on the surface, which has given in to the temptation of a clean slate on several occasions, the subterranean city cannot remove one level of its history without consequences; it must accept itself as a global system whose equilibrium is based on the acceptance of the legacies of the past. This is not the least seduction of this buried city whose call resounds like an invitation to descend the endless staircase of all the Paris