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Paris sewers
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<p>The <a href="/facts/Sanitary_sewer/qMKCIW6M">sewers</a> of <a href="/facts/Paris/DrNHpwnA">Paris</a> date back to the year 1370 when the first underground system was constructed under <a href="/facts/Rue_Montmartre/9Y4YQD5F">Rue Montmartre</a>. Consecutive French governments enlarged the system to cover the city's population, including expansions under <a href="/facts/Louis_XIV/2LseeIlj">Louis XIV</a> and <a href="/facts/Napoleon_III/F29546rc">Napoleon III</a>, and modernisation programs in the 1990s under Mayor <a href="/facts/Jacques_Chirac/DxxFJ6H7">Jacques Chirac</a>. The system has featured in popular culture through its existence, including <a href="/facts/Victor_Hugo/fTAsw2A8">Victor Hugo</a>'s 1862 novel, <i><a href="/facts/Les_Mis%25C3%25A9rables/sKTzG5r8">Les Misérables</a></i>, and <a href="/facts/Harold_L._Humes/Hh1gDTQQ">H. L. Humes</a>'s 1958 novel <i>The Underground City</i>. </p>