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Metropolitan Tombology (PARIS CATACOMBS) with Erin-Marie Legacey

Ologies with Alie Ward

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Is There a Future in French History?

Dr. Erin Legosi has written a book about the Paris catacombs, which is how she became an expert in this story. She learned to speak French from the time she was five years old and it helped her find documents that would have been indecipherable if not for language skills. Her favorite document includes hundreds of pages of handwritten comments made by visitors on August 8th, 1811. Dr. Legosi: If you can read and understand French, there's just so much moreYou can't do a PhD in French history without without understanding French.

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