It's the 1880s, and Paris desperately needs a metro, but nobody can agree how to build it. Underground? Too smelly. Aerial? Too Ugly. "Wait a minute", says Navy captain Edouard Mazet, "I have an idea..."
A big thank you to Caroline Grubbs of Southern Methodist University for help researching this story! You can read her essay on the topic here (in French) - serd.hypotheses.org/files/201...
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