Two years after Boitard’s death, a vastly expanded, 500-page version of his 1836/1838 pair
of articles was published using the same title,
Paris avant les hommes, and with the
same time-traveling devil companion who takes Boitard back to prehistory.
— Michael Main
If only we were still in the time of fairies and genies, maybe I could find one good
enough to tell me what the world, or only France, or Paris, or even just the Tuileries
Gardens was like, ten or twelve thousand years ago, more or less.