200 Years Old
Public Domain
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The canal, which was 4.5kms long, had been built when Napoleon I signed off the plans and gave the construction crew the green light.
The canal’s original purpose was to give the population of 550,000 clean drinking water – however, there was a possibility that the number of Parisians would increase. But that wasn’t all the canal had been built for – it also served a much darker purpose.
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