The daughter of parents in Paris's underground theater scene, as a teenager she was cast in prominent roles by the great French directors Jean-Luc Godard and Bertrand Tavernier.

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Our program was looking as all aspects of underground life in Paris and in the process of researching it we also came across another extraordinary group who put the subterranean spaces to new uses.

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Compared with the grubby, overcrowded underground systems of London, Paris and New York, Bangkok's train on stilts is a sparkling success.

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Builders dug deep underground to extract limestone to build Paris above ground.

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Soon Jacques Henric will go down to the underground parking garage and climb onto his Honda and venture out into the cold streets of Paris, becoming cold himself, a man who shapes his own destiny, and knows, or at least believes, that he is lucky.

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