Things to find in France

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• Carlsbad’s cousin: Gouffre de Padirac Cave
  You descend 103 metres into a great open shaft in the French causse, then board a flat-bottomed boat and are poled along an underground river through galleries to a chamber whose roof is 90 metres overhead. Discovered in 1889, it...
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• Rennes-le-Chateau Legend
  The most famous treasure mystery in France, and a cautionary tale. In the 1890s a village priest, Berenger Sauniere, suddenly began spending huge sums on his hilltop church and estate, and the story grew that he had found a...
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• The Beast of Gévaudan Legend
  Between 1764 and 1767, something killed roughly a hundred people in the Margeride mountains of south-central France, mostly women and children tending stock, in attacks so ferocious the king sent professional hunters and...
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• The Catacombs of Paris Haunted place
  Under Paris are the emptied limestone quarries that built the city, and in 1786 the authorities began moving the contents of overflowing cemeteries down into them, six million people, stacked as walls of femurs and skulls...
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• The Rhinegold of the Nibelungs Legend
  Somewhere in the Rhine, the old German epic says, lies the hoard of the Nibelungs, cursed gold sunk in the river by Hägen after the murder of the hero Siegfried. Wagner made an opera cycle of it and it runs to the root of German...
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