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October 11, 2004
Finding the Halloween Spirit under the Boulevards de Paris
PARIS, FRANCE: If you wish to get into the Halloween spirit (and it's sure better than the Thanksgiving spirit), pay a visit to the Paris catacombs. The catacombs are old mining tunnels that run under central Paris; stone for the Louvre came from these mines. In the late 1700s, the city's cemeteries were overflowing, and it was decided to dig them all up and stuff the bones in the tunnels. Now, a visit to this giant ossuary provides the opportunity to view some 6-7 million Frenchmens' bones, stacked very neatly along a full half-mile of tunnels. Typically, femurs form a sort of retaining wall with a few rows of skulls for decoration. Other random bones (pelvises, shoulder blades, ulnas, etc.) are piled floor-to-ceiling behind. (There are quite few hammers, anvils, or tarsels.) Some of the skulls are bashed in (though this may have occurred when the skeletons were dug out of their graves), and others bear what look like bullet holes. Here are some pics:
- France: Paris. Two skulls greet visitors to this necropolis.
- France: Paris. Piles of bones, floor to celing, placed here in April 1786. Note the sign indicating the cemetery from which they were unearthed.
- France: Paris. More piles of bones, stacked ever so neatly.
Posted by adrianjo at October 11, 2004 12:40 PM
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