Old photograph of the quarries cable. The stone blocks were shipped down the hill with a kind of funicular.

The table is actually an old saw blade stone.

Old photograph of the incline of the underground quarry of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux

One of my first open-flash photography, done with old camera film.

The Palais de Chaillot was performed at the Universal Exhibition of 1937 by the architects Leon Azema, Jacques Carlu and Louis-Hippolyte Boileau, instead of the old Palais du Trocadéro. The Chaillot Palace is composed of two pavilions and two curved wings flanking the esplanade of human rights. The facades and roof of the palace, its courtyard and terrace staircase, its remaining home decor (except theater review) have been classified as historic monuments December 24, 1980. It houses several museums.

source: Wikipedia

The Musée d'Orsay is actually an old train station. The Gare d'Orsay was designed by architect Victor Laloux in 1898. The station was inaugurated two years later, in 1900 at the Expo. Shortly after the Second World War, the station is decommissioned. There sometimes filming. In 1973, the station is included in the supplementary inventory of historical monuments. An architectural competition was organized in the 80s to rehabilitate the old station. The Orsay Museum was inaugurated in 1986.

source: Wikipedia

A beautiful medieval cellar cave excavated by some groups in the area. 1800 tons of debris have been removed to give a breath of life to those underground. These caves communicate with each other on a good part of the hill. They share an old quarry, very small, very pretty and beautifully preserved.

Source: words collected during Heritage Days 2008

Quarries of Paris - Showroom mineralogy of the Rue Saint Jacques.

The showroom mineralogical most famous of Paris is the Salle Saint-Jacques. It was constructed by Major Gambier in the heart of the underground quarry system of the GRS (Great South network), just false catacombs at Denfert-Rochereau, in fact ossuaries in old underground quarries.

The side benches were used to display the site's geological curiosities. At the center of the room, a staircase dummy materialized superposition of limestone beds of the place. Each step was a sample. Originally, the name of each geological layer of rock was inscribed on the front steps of each room but this was very bumpy because too many visitors have visited illegal.

Can be found in certain geological showroom more difficult to access such information.

source: website of Zedou(FR)

"The mine"

The slope goes down in the lower level that can make the connection with the largest sectors. Warning, the quarry and especially this level is full of holes in all kind. So please pay attention, thank you.

An old negative scan of photography i've done for the Marly's caves. A commercial wine cellar.