In the biennium 1917-1918 the French government entrusted an Italian engineer, Fernand Jacopozzi the construction of a city named 'Faux Paris' or 'Sham Paris' ('Fake Paris'). Making it the French capital's clone on the 1:1 scale, it was supposed to mislead pilots of the Reich during possible raids. Close to the town Maisons-Laffitte Seine describes a loop similar to the one in Paris. Three areas in the north, north-east and north-west of the metropolis were chosen to complete the plan. Starting from episodes like that of Faux Paris, I reflect on the question of the increasingly blurred border between reality and its representation. It has something similar to the processes we are witnessing today: the transformation of once lively cities into carefully preserved museums, information pollution in politics and culture according to the logic and aesthetics of the spectacular and its spectator. Seeking and replacing mosaiced pieces of history allows us to understand the bigger jigsaw puzzle that is being assembled today. I visited Parisian libraries and archives, observed and photographed the real city, keeping in mind the drawings and plans of its potential replica. “Faux Paris” was never made, apart from the urban myth there is nothing left from it nowadays. Notwithstanding, for a curious eye these places offer a privileged point of view allowing the interpretation of the real phenomena from a unique perspective, seizing historical and psychological connections that tie the past to our present.