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Show French Digg'-j Dugouts Find Relics of 400-1600 Far below the ground on the island is-land in the Seine from which rise the graceful towers of Notre Dame laborers hastily building protections protec-tions against the next war are finding find-ing reminders of other wars, of long forgotten invasions, harrowing sieges and revolutions nearly two thousand years into the past, reports re-ports a Paris United Press "writer. In the courtyard of the somber Republican Guard barracks on the He de la Cite laborers have been excavating for a huge shelter against air bombardment. Arche-ologists Arche-ologists were called in when the workmen came upon ruins showing that this was not the first time Paris had been called on to protect pro-tect Itself. Walls and columns of an ancient chapel and a church were discovered. discov-ered. Searchers revealed ruins varying vary-ing In date from the Fourth century cen-tury to the French revolution, and turned up human remains. Archeologists are confident that they will find another section of the original wall of the ancient Gallic city of Luteria, and thus piece together ruins recalling the first attacks by barbarians from the north and east, the days when St Genevieve saved the small mud-hut city from the Huns, and the epoch when Clovis made It his capital. They have found structures dating to the Fourth century, to the siege by the Normans in 8S5. to the Fifteenth Fif-teenth and Sixteenth centuries and" remains of flats built during the French revolution, when the state took over property of the church. Aime Grimault, Inspector of the commission of Old Paris, revealed that the workmen had uncovered the floor of a chapel built In the Fourth century, when Paris was a few mud houses huddled on an Island Is-land In the Seine In a swampy, tin-Inviting tin-Inviting but strategic valley. This chapel was called St John the Baptist, Bap-tist, and Its .early history Is lost In the obscurity of the ancient Gallic Gal-lic town, which was first mentioned In Caesar's Commentaries as Lu-tetla. |