In the 19th century, factory and human wastewater was often discharged directly into the Seine. A revolutionary new Paris sewer system, developed during city planner Baron Haussmann’s seismic ...

and refuse carried out—through the Paris underbelly—to fertilize fields on the outskirts. Late 19th-century sewer workers labor in the main sewer beneath Boulevard de Belleville and Boulevard ...

The Bièvre – a tributary of the Seine that rises in Guyancourt, Yvelines, and flows into the city near the Gare d’Austerlitz ...

PARIS — Fire engulfed the town hall of Paris’ 12th district early Monday, causing no casualties but severely damaging the bell tower of the 19th century building. Paris police prefect Laurent ...