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Title: Historiographie des "dessous chics" des Capucins ou l'histoire de hôpital Cochin, vue par le prisme des carrières
Authors: Gilles Thomas
Publisher: Revue XYZ 110
Year: 2007
Language: French

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"When you descend below Paris, at the level of the old underground limestone quarries, you could well be travelling back in time. If you want to reach this part of Paris, it only takes 2 minutes to descend approximately 20 meters.
From there you explore a labyrinth of corridors created more than 200 years ago, with engraved inscriptions which bear the names of overhead streets, written during the period fron the end of the XWIIIth century to the beginning of XIXth century.
For people who can't visit the Parisian "catacombs", having a look at the city's underground maps (especially those drawn by cataphiles) can be a good substitute for this real time travel. "

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Underground Paris.