Arrete! C'est ici L'Empire de la Morte - Stop! Here is the empire of the dead.
These skulls are in the shape of a heart.
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The Catacombs in Paris are an immense maze of tunnels dug under the
city. In 1786, all the bodies from Cimetiere des Innocents were exhumed
and moved into the tunnels under Denfert Rochereau.
Arrete! C'est ici L'Empire de la Morte - Stop! Here is the empire of the dead. |
| | These walls, made out of leg bones and skulls, hold the remains. |
| | The other random bones were simply tossed in the box made with the leg bones and the tunnel walls. |
| | Yuk. |
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There are bizarre attempts at making patterns (art?) with the remains.
These skulls are in the shape of a heart. |
| | One crypt does the duty for all the souls here. |
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