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    The Paris Sewer Museum (French: Musée des Égouts de Paris), is a museum located in the sewers at the esplanade Habib-Bourguiba [fr], near the pont de...
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    The sewers of Paris date back to the year 1370 when the first underground system was constructed under Rue Montmartre. Consecutive French governments...
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  • There are around 130 museums in Paris, France, within city limits. This list also includes suburban museums within the "Grand Paris" area, such as the Air...
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    against excessive taxation, and sought his support. Prudently, he took the opportunity to flee from the city of Bastille after that. Paris Sewer Museum...
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    Today Paris has more than 2,400 km (1,491 mi) of underground sewers. Air pollution in Paris, from the point of view of particulate matter (PM10), is the...
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    Eugène Belgrand (category Engineers from Paris)
    Parisian sewer system during the 19th century rebuilding of Paris. Much of Belgrand's work remains in use today. Prior to 1850, the water system in Paris was...
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    The Musée Carnavalet in Paris is dedicated to the history of the city. The museum occupies two neighboring mansions: the Hôtel Carnavalet and the former...
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    Seine (redirect from 2018 Paris flood)
    a combined sewer overflow, ENPC – University Paris Val de Marne Paris XII (France), 1997, 181 pp. Schofield, Hugh (25 July 2023). "Paris to bring back...
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    carried in a tank on the roof, or coal gas or methane, extracted from the Paris sewers. The metro ran, but service was frequently interrupted and the cars were...
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    the main brick-vaulted, oval-sectioned sewers of Paris' much-imitated system, with its sidewalks for the sewer workers.[citation needed] In 1852, opposite...
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  • experiences with a friendly competition and talks included unique museums, like the Paris Sewer Museum. The guest was CNBLUE member, solo artist and actor Jung...
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    and the Louvre given its glass pyramid. In the 21st century, Paris added new museums and a new concert hall, but in 2005 it also experienced violent...
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    Psychodidae (redirect from Sewer fly)
    Psychodidae, also called drain flies, sink flies, filter flies, sewer flies, or sewer gnats, is a family of true flies. Some genera have short, hairy...
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  • and Monk visit numerous tourist attractions, including the Paris Sewer Museum and the Paris Catacombs, a massive ossuary for the city's long-dead residents...
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    medieval Paris, and there were about twenty-six public baths in Paris in 1272. The ancient Gallo-Roman town of Lutetia had an efficient sewer along what...
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    Italy in 1945 to control malaria. It was once used to kill rats in Parisian sewers, which is how it acquired its common name. However, the manufacturing of...
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    between France and other countries. The starting point of visits to the Paris sewers in the vicinity of the Eiffel Tower is on the left bank of the Seine...
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    under the nearby Museokatu street, or gas that developed on its own in the sewer. Later, police investigations found the cause to be a gas pipe leak. Most...
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    Paris Métro Line 14 (French: Ligne 14 du métro de Paris) is one of the sixteen lines on the Paris Métro. It connects Saint-Denis–Pleyel and Aéroport d'Orly...
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    the 1937 Paris International Exposition The Palais de Tokyo, built for the 1937 Exposition, is now the museum of modern art of the city of Paris Grand stairway...
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    including the Pont des Arts (1804), the first iron bridge in Paris. The Louvre became the Napoleon Museum, in a wing of the former palace, displaying many works...
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    takes Air Force One to his destination. The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, also known as WASA or D.C. Water, is an independent authority...
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  • Nightmare Creatures II (category Video games set in Paris)
    Wallace departs from the graveyard and falls into a sewer, which in turn takes him to the Paris underground, where he finds evidence of documents of...
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    The fires of Paris during the Commune were the premeditated destruction of monuments and residential buildings in Paris mainly during Bloody Week, the...
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    (played by Orson Welles) uses one of these columns as an escape route to the sewer system under Vienna. In the film Gremlins 2, Billy Peltzer (played by Zach...
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    the construction of a new sewer system for Paris in 1805, under the direction of Emmanuel Bruneseau, named Inspector of Sewers. He built a network of 26...
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    Anna is able to warn him that the police are closing in. He flees into the sewer, with the police following him underground. Lime shoots and kills Sgt. Paine...
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    collection of art, the Carroll Porczyński Collection Museum displays works from such varied artists as Paris Bordone, Cornelis van Haarlem, José de Ribera,...
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    squat toilet. In urban areas, flush toilets are usually connected to a sewer system; in isolated areas, to a septic tank. The waste is known as blackwater...
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    Napoleon III (category Nobility from Paris)
    completely rebuilt the Paris sewers and installed miles of pipes to distribute gas for thousands of new streetlights along the Paris streets.[page needed]...
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