Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780–1830 by Erin-Marie Legacey

Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780–1830

Erin-Marie Legacey

429 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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The dead of Paris, before the French Revolution, were most often consigned to mass graveyards that contemporaries described as terrible and terrifying, emitting "putrid miasmas" that were a threat to both health and dignity. In a book that is at o...

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