January 2011
9 posts
National Geographic Magazine: Descent Into Paris →
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Visiting Paris’s vast underground network is essentially interdit (forbidden, for those of you who were not French majors). But a handful of legal entrées provides a glimpse of this underbelly of darkness, where history, mystique, and ghoulish underpinnings collide.
By Barbara Noe
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The French House Untouched for 100 Years By Hugh Schofield →
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A late 19th Century town-house in central France that was sealed up for more than 100 years has finally been opened to the public in accordance with its owner’s last wishes.
It’s a balmy January night in Paris. At 1am there are birds chirping. Something is not right.