Catacombs of Paris
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The Catacombs of Paris are underground ossuaries in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six million people. Built to consolidate Paris's ancient stone quarries, they extend south from t
Crypt of the Sepulchral Lamp in the Catacombs of Paris
Les Innocents cemetery in 1550
Wall made of bones
Ossuary skull and bone wall detail
Holy Innocents' Cemetery
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The Holy Innocents' Cemetery is a defunct cemetery in Paris that was used from the Middle Ages until the late 18th century. It was the oldest and largest cemetery in Paris and had often been used for
Catacombs of Paris
…eliminate the effects of the city's overflowing cemeteries. Preparation work began shortly after a 1774 series of basement wall collapses around the Holy Innocents' Cemetery added a sense of urgency to the cemetery-eliminating measure, and from 1788, nightly processions of covered wagons transferred remains from most of…
Charnier with mural of the Danse Macabre
The Fontaine des Innocents at its original location in the 17th century (19th-century engraving)
The fountain as it appeared in 1791 when the French constitution was proclaimed on the Marché des Innocents