Roughly 5 stories beneath the streets of Paris you’ll find the bones of over 6 million people stacked in neat rows and arranged in grotesquely intricate designs. The Paris Catacombs attract over 500,000 visitors each year, but do you know why such a shockingly morbid site exists? Let’s fix that.

Sources: 

• https://www.catacombes.paris.fr/en/history
• ​​https://lister.history.ox.ac.uk/index-page_id=412.html
• https://mineralogicalrecord.com/new_biobibliography/hericart-de-thury-louis-e-f/
• https://www.sortiraparis.com/en/what-to-visit-in-paris/history-heritage/articles/248888-history-of-paris-the-holy-innocents-cemetery-and-what-remains-of-it
• https://www.walksofitaly.com/blog/art-culture/paris-catacombs
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-people-eat-during-siege#:~:text=In%201590%2C%20Starving%20Parisians%20Ground%20Human%20Bones%20Into%20Bread%20%2D%20Gastro%20Obscura

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