The Catacombs and the Department of Mines and Queries

Etienne de Turie is put in charge of the Department of Mines and Queries under the Napoleonic regime. One of the first things he's tasked with is clean up those catacombs and open them up to do something with them. He does it in four months what and so him and his staff do this work while engineers and city workers pile up all the bones. The catacombs are visited by like hundreds and then thousands of people between then and when they're closed down in 1830.

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