Metropolitan Tombology (PARIS CATACOMBS) with Erin-Marie Legacey
Ologies with Alie Ward
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Let's Put Them Under the Catacombs
In 1788 Royal Guards shot killed a bunch of Parisians whose bodies were deposited directly into the catacombs. Four years later during something called the September prison massacres of 1792 as many as a thousand bodies were dumped into theCatacombs. Aaron writes in her 2017 paper the catcombs served as a useful space where potentially controversial bodies could be quickly stashed away in anonymity and forgotten since they weren't yet an accessible city space. Those treated differently because they were kind of freshYeah yeah they were treated with lime oh and that helps break it down and helps decompose yeah.
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