Atlas of abandoned France

Across the country, many witnesses to a bygone era are falling into oblivion, taking with them the vestiges of a past that is just as fascinating as the one carefully safeguarded behind glass. That's what this superb photographic report is all about : beauty and grandeur never disappear. An abandoned Paris metro station, fire stations where tankers from the last century wait in vain for the next alert, a prison with faded pastel walls, cloisters overgrown with vegetation, a mansion where dust covers the keys of a mute piano, fighter planes asleep on the runway of an airfield, a crypt plunged into eternal silence...