R: This passage from Les Miserables, caught my interest. What is this ‘city of mud’?
“If Paris contains Athens, the city of light, Tyre, the city of might, Sparta, the city of virtue, Nineveh, the city of marvels, it also contains Lutetia, the city of mud.”
Lutetia, city of mud
From wiki: The Roman city of Lutetia (also Lutetia Parisiorumin...
Lutetia, city of mud
“If Paris contains Athens, the city of light, Tyre, the city of might, Sparta, the city of virtue, Nineveh, the city of marvels, it also contains Lutetia, the city of mud.”
Lutetia, city of mud
From wiki: The Roman city of Lutetia (also Lutetia Parisiorumin...
Lutetia, city of mud
