Paris: human population 2 million… living alongside 6 million rats and who know how many million cockroaches! So is Paris the City of Blights? Yes, the French capital is swarming with prolific, sometimes disturbing hidden life. From the world of sewer rats to the subway kingdom of the cicadas, we take a deep breath and plunge into the weird and wonderful jungle of the Parisian underworld. Strangely, these creatures we see as ennemies – vermin that spread the most terrible diseases, gnaw through electric cables and generally make nuisance of themselves – can also be very useful to us.
