Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910 by Jeffrey H. Jackson

Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910

Jeffrey H. Jackson

272 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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In the winter of 1910, the river that brought life to Paris—the Seine—became a force of destruction in just a matter of hours. Torrential rainfall saturated the soil, and faulty engineering created conditions that soon drowned Parisian streets, ho...

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