The shadow of a man exploring the watery catacombs of Paris below Rue de l'Aude in the 14th district of Paris, flooded gallery and pillar.
Below the Val de Grace garden in the 5th district of Paris. Maze with strengthening devices designed by Mansart in the 17th century.
Funerary stele of Philibert Aspairt, a legendary character who was lost within the subterranean quarries of Paris and died in 1793. The stele is...
Students entering the Ecole des Mines de Paris wear municipal shrouds for the initiation ceremony, in a room called Fontaine de la Samaritaine, or...
Inspection gallery below the street of Assas, in the 6th district of Paris, formerly called the rue de l'Ouest.
Stone columbs are characteristic of the subterranean quarry landscapes in the catacombs, located in a room below the 8th district of Paris.
The "mur des promos" of the Ecole des Mines de Paris, with the emblem of the school in the bottom left corner. Following their baptism, tradition...
The trail of a light carried by a man exploring the dark catacombs of Paris. One of the entrances of the quarries.
Some underground halls can only be reached through hidden and narrow galleries which are like black holes before the polychromic paintings on the...
