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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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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alligators in sewers. A similar story from 1851 involves feral pigs in the sewers of Hampstead, London. Following the reports of sewer alligators in the...
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and squares, the annexation of the suburbs surrounding Paris, and the construction of new sewers, fountains and aqueducts. Haussmann's work was met with...
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companies to send messages underground through sealed lines laid in the Paris sewers, bypassing any traffic on the roads above. The network was taken into...
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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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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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political economy, all I need is... a piece of waste). Paris Sewers and Sewermen, p. 55. Paris Sewers and Sewermen, p. 55. "L'intestin de Léviathan", Book...
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Les Misérables (category Novels set in Paris)
cloistered religious orders, the construction of the Paris sewers, argot, and the street urchins of Paris. The one about convents he titles "Parenthesis" to...
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breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen, such as in swamps and sewers; this process is commonly known as anaerobic digestion, which is done by...
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d'Hérelle's laboratory at the Pasteur Institute, from samples collected in Paris sewers. Its characterization and the study of its replication mechanism were...
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river's banks within the city, but flooded Paris through tunnels, sewers, and drains. These larger sewer tunnels were engineered by Baron Haussmann and...
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Jean-Paul Marat (category Burials at the Panthéon, Paris)
1789 and 1792, Marat was often forced into hiding, sometimes in the Paris sewers, where he almost certainly aggravated his debilitating chronic skin disease...
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (redirect from Notre-Dame of Paris (novel))
Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris, lit. 'Our Lady of Paris', originally titled Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482) is a French Gothic novel by Victor...
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Eugène Belgrand (category Engineers from Paris)
to modernize the city, appointed Belgrand as Director of Water and Sewers of Paris in March 1855. Hausmann had been impressed by the École Polytechnique...
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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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disposing of it in a modern sewer system. Paris' sewer system began modernizing in the 1880s, with the conversion of storm sewers for public sewage. Some...
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sewers, totaling almost 100 miles (160 km) in length, were constructed, some incorporating stretches of London's 'lost' rivers. Three of these sewers...
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heard of the fate of her lover who died by drowning in the quicksand in Paris' sewers, Hugo comments that "Hero refuses to wash Leander's corpse." In the...
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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 and...
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Hugo's lengthy history of the Paris sewers is "eviscerated into one subordinate clause", the entire passage through the sewers condensed "from 39 pages to...
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Georges-Eugène Haussmann (category Architects from Paris)
completely rebuilt the Paris sewers, and installed miles of pipes to distribute gas for thousands of new streetlights along the Paris streets. Beginning in...
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earlier, including the Palais Garnier, Bouillon Racine, Maxim's and the Paris sewers and objects from the collections of the Musée d'Orsay, Musée de l'École...
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sanitation issues that plagued Paris while also working to improve the water supply to the city, to enlarge the Paris sewer system and to install gas lighting...
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glory hole rooms. Its basement wet area was designed to look like the Paris sewers. The club's popularity peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s. Rudolf Nureyev...
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clue. In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to walk through the Paris sewers to the Place du Châtelet, where they found their next clue. After the...
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1984. Retrieved 3 November 2012. Hilary de Vries, "Theater; From The Paris Sewers To Vietnam's Streets", The New York Times , 17 September 1989. Retrieved...
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Funk and his soldiers, leading them on a wild goose chase through the Paris sewers. Thus, Paul and the fliers are allowed enough time to make their escape...
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the use of hypochlorite for disinfection of Paris sewers. He became an assistant professor at the Paris School of Pharmacy in 1835. He published extensively...
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Provost of Paris under Charles V. He built the Bastille in 1370-1383. He was a capable administrator who built the first sewers in Paris, and strengthened...
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