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Les Egouts
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In a city of glamour and grandeur, the sewers (egouts ) of Paris are an incongruously popular attraction. They date from the Second Empire (1851–70), when Baron Haussmann was transforming the city (see The Second Empire), and the sewers which helped to sanitize and ventilate Paris are considered one of his finest achievements. Most of the work was done by an engineer named Belgrand. The 2,100-km (1,300-mile) network covers the area from Les Halles to La Villette – if laid end-to-end the sewers would stretch from Paris to Istanbul. An hour-long tour includes a walk through some of the tunnels, where you’ll see water pipes, telephone lines and various cables, while the museum tells the story of the city’s water and sewers, from their beginnings to the present day. There is an audio-visual show and a room devoted to sanitation techniques of the future.
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