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The Unknown Woman

Criminal

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The Origins of the Morgue

In the 1800s, hundreds of thousands of people started moving to Paris. There was more of what we would perhaps consider now to be untimely death. Two-thirds of the bodies in the morgue were reported to be pulled from the sand. The police would distribute photographs of the bodies and ask people to identify them.

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