vendredi 5 octobre 2007

145 Lafayette.

Je relisais l'autre jour une conversation entre Casaubon et le taxidermiste Salon, dans le Pendule de Foucault.

- Je contrôle. Je me méfie des souterrains mais je veux les comprendre. Ce n’est pas qu’il y ait beaucoup de possibilités. Les catacombes à Rome, me direz-vous. Il n’y a pas de mystère, elles sont pleines de touristes, et sous le contrôle de l’Eglise. Il y a les égouts de Paris… Vous y avez été ? On peut les visiter le lundi, le mercredi et le dernier samedi de chaque mois, en entrant par le pont de l’Alma. Ca aussi c’est un parcours pour touristes. Naturellement à Paris il y a aussi les catacombes, et des caves profondes. Pour ne rien dire du métro. N’avez-vous jamais été au numéro 145 de la rue Lafayette ?
- J’avoue que non.
- Un peu hors de portée, entre la gare de l’Est et la gare du Nord. Un édifice d’abord indiscernable. Seulement si vous l’observez mieux, vous vous rendez compte que les portes semblent en bois mais sont en fer peint, et que les fenêtres donnent sur des pièces inhabitées depuis des siècles. Jamais une lumière. Mais les gens passent et ne savent pas.
- Ne savent pas quoi ?
- Que c’est une fausse maison. C’est une façade, une enveloppe sans toit, sans rien à l’intérieur. Vide. Ce n’est que l’orifice d’une cheminée. Elle sert à l’aération ou à évacuer les émanations du RER. Et quand vous le comprenez, vous avez l’impression d’être devant la gueule des Enfers ; et que seulement si vous pouviez pénétrer dans ces murs, vous auriez accès au Paris souterrain. Il m’est arrivé de passer des heures et des heures devant ces portes qui masquent la porte des portes, la station de départ pour le voyage au centre de la terre. Pourquoi croyez-vous qu’ils ont fait ça ?
- Pour aérer le métro, vous avez dit.
- Les bouches d’aération suffisaient. Non, c’est devant ces souterrains que je commence à avoir des soupçons. Me comprenez-vous ?


Source : Umberto Eco (le Pendule de Foucault).

J'ai donc fait un passage hier soir à cette adresse pour le compte de la ligue avec deux acolytes et nous avons constaté de visu...


L'immeuble est factice, en effet. Fermé par de lourdes portes que je ne suis pas parvenu à forcer. Les fenêtres sont fumées, pas complètement opaques, et laissent entrevoir par endroits les lumières discrètes d'appliques de secours. L'impression générale est assez étrange.


Et grâce à google, la preuve en image :

Source : Google Earth (48°52'45.19''N 2°21'22.05E).

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