The Catacombs Guest Book

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I thought it would be kind of like moving and emotional but it just was like yup those are bones you know it. I got bored after a couple of minutes some people say that not everybody yeahYeah they're like okay bones got it yeah It's very interesting to see how it staged so in addition to all the bones there's a bunch of kind of sculptures made out of bones. There are these quotations from all sorts of thing literature poetry the Bible like things from antiquityThings from the 19th century little passages are put on these plaques throughout the catacombs that are supposed to make you sort of ruminate on death and your own death and things like that. A lot of them

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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