How to Turn Bones Into Glass

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Aaron writes about Pierre Giraud in her book which led me down my own morbid rabbit holes of Google to find a translation of Pierre's 1801 book the tombs essay on the graves. He wrote that treated bones tossed in special ovens vitrify or classify into a substance that he describes is looking quote quite pleasant and somewhat resembling Chinese porcelain with a bluish appearance and half transparency but he continues perhaps by raising the temperature as much as possible we would obtain a product strong enough to be used in the form of bricks or plates for whatever use. If nobody comes to claim their bodies we'll just turn them into bricks and we'll just use it for building isn't that wild what

Let’s get spooky. Venture below Parisian streets and into the catacombs: hundreds of miles of subterranean tunnels housing millions of human skeletons, some fashioned into sculpture. Alie tracked down Dr. Erin-Marie Legacey – author of “Making Space for the Dead,” professor of French history and one of the world’s foremost experts on this eerie place. We chat about everything from miasmas to sinkholes, boggling cemetery history, smells, skulls, hidden chambers, (very) underground parties, and how we view our bodies post-life. Also: Alie takes a trip to see them herself.

Dr. Legacy’s book, “Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830” on Bookshop.org and Amazon

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