When Lafayette in 1830 discovered the tunnels beneath Paris
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Following the discovery of a largely unknown note signed by Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, in the manuscript collections of the library of the Hôtel de Ville de Paris, in which there is mention of an underground passage between the Luxembourg Palace and the town of Arcueil Erwan Boukella and Gilles Thomas attempted to test the hypothesis, first by walking through the labyrinth of quarry tunnels beneath the French capital that had been shored up from the end of the 18th century onwards, and second by following the almost straight, and closer to the surface, aqueduct built to bring water from springs in Rungis to Paris, commissioned by Marie de Médicis and put into service in 1623.
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