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In our hyper functional Paris, with all its contemporary technologies, roadmaps, Internet guides at the beginning of a new Millennium, there are stunning spots that don't respond to the description of a modern capital, randomly located around the large arteries or ancient streets that saw History flow by. It seem that Man has left, more intensively as elsewhere, the imprint of their joys, misfortunes, virtues or perversions. Certain of these spots go as far as Antiquity. Wasn't LUTECE already really special, with its fluctuating topography and lots monuments amidst vast swamps? Others, more recent, evoke customs of another era. The last-born seem to fulfil some mysterious functions. Let's discover them together……
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