France
Paris: The Forum des Halles is a partially underground multiple story commercial and shopping center, opened in 1979. The building is connected to the underground station Chatelet-Les-Halles, central hub of Paris's express metro system, the RER. There was more than 300 km (186 mi) of a network of catacombs, started as limestone quarries and later for burials, used as safe passageways in times of revolution.
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“The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
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—Anatole France (1844–1924)