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A Very Powerful Person, and He's a Very Beautiful Person
Gaspal takes us under the Montbarnasse Cemetery in Paris. The tunnels feel a bit like underground streets, with street names on the wall. King Louis the 16th ordered that all the quarries be inspected and consolidated. By the end of the 18th century the ground beneath Paris had been mined so extensively it looked like a piece of Gruyere cheese full of holes.