You Got Peanut Butter on My Chocolate

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Starting in 1786 they start moving carticartfuls of human bones across the city from the cemetery of the innocence and over to the this entry point to these quarries. This is the very area that suffered some major sinkholes previously like there was one in the Ruda Aufehr which was 30 meters or 90 feet wide and deep but it swallowed buildings, carriages, horses I'm guessingSome human beings. So you have these new clean cleaned up safer tunnels and you have all these bones and so it's like the perfect solution. We're gonna take those bones and we're gonna just put them on their ground and someone's like yeah we'll have our own catac

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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