Notes on the parisian subterrain

I've been diving a bit more into this map, angling specifically towards using it to run a Bookholm campaign. Enromous caveat: I am an Anglo gamer chud with no archaeological or historical background; what follows is a repository of my dungeoncrawling-focused deciphering of French government(?) data using a combination of google translate and my partner who studied GCSE french. It is not an authoritative or even necessarily accurate work, but if you're looking to use the same resources I have to run a dungeoneering campaign, it may prove useful to you. catacombs vs. mines Mines of Paris catacombs of Paris The 'catacombs' are actually a comparatively tiny, but disproportionately famous, section of the Parisian mines that were converted into an ossuary due to overflowing cemeteries. The mines exist because of widespread, 'haphazard' mining practices, chiefly in the 12th century, that resulted in a great risk to the city's structural integrity. In 1774, a 30-metre section of road…