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Les Invisibles
Sep. 8th, 2004 11:29 pmEn Les Catacombes:
Paris police have accidentally stumbled across a full-size movie theater and restaurant, complete with professional electrical hookup and phone lines, being run secretly under the city.
They have no idea who built it or used it. When they returned with experts from the electrical company to try to figure out where the power was coming from, the place had been emptied, the power lines cut, and a note was left lying in the middle of the floor which read simply "Do not try to find us."
Strange things have always been going on under the streets of Paris (strangely, the miles of underground catacombs, many of them unmapped and unknown outside select groups, are never mentioned in any of the books I've read recently on the French Resistance. You'd think they'd make natural headquarters, but everything seems to have been in secret rooms or hidden basements or portable locations.. Anyway, I digress.)
Several groups have used the catacombs, however, from picnicking (or orgying) "cataphiles", to whoever had enlarged the tunnels under the high-security La Santé prison, to a group calling itself the "Perforating Mexicans", who took credit for the theater.
There are about 170 miles of known tunnels. Nobody knows exactly how much new construction there's been in the 50 years since the Catacombes (other than one small part open to tourists) were closed to the public. Or how much unknown and previously-sealed tunnels there were before that.
(Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stonemirror for the link!)
Paris police have accidentally stumbled across a full-size movie theater and restaurant, complete with professional electrical hookup and phone lines, being run secretly under the city.
They have no idea who built it or used it. When they returned with experts from the electrical company to try to figure out where the power was coming from, the place had been emptied, the power lines cut, and a note was left lying in the middle of the floor which read simply "Do not try to find us."
Strange things have always been going on under the streets of Paris (strangely, the miles of underground catacombs, many of them unmapped and unknown outside select groups, are never mentioned in any of the books I've read recently on the French Resistance. You'd think they'd make natural headquarters, but everything seems to have been in secret rooms or hidden basements or portable locations.. Anyway, I digress.)
Several groups have used the catacombs, however, from picnicking (or orgying) "cataphiles", to whoever had enlarged the tunnels under the high-security La Santé prison, to a group calling itself the "Perforating Mexicans", who took credit for the theater.
There are about 170 miles of known tunnels. Nobody knows exactly how much new construction there's been in the 50 years since the Catacombes (other than one small part open to tourists) were closed to the public. Or how much unknown and previously-sealed tunnels there were before that.
(Thanks to
stonemirror for the link!)
