WHY IS PARIS UNCOVERING A RIVER IT BURIED A CENTURY AGO?
newspaper surveyed the damage Parisians had done to the Bièvre. For centuries, the 13-ft.-wide river had snaked up through southern Paris, joining the Seine in the city center. But as the Industrial Revolution took off, tanneries and dyers had severely polluted its waters. “It flows slowly, oily, and black,” the writer noted, “streaked with
