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Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2019

1 online resource (229 pages)

ISBN 9781501715617 (e-book)

ISBN 9781501715594

ISBN 9781501715600

Print version: Legacey, Erin-Marie, 1979- Making space for the dead : catacombs, cemeteries, and the reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2019 229 pages ISBN 9781501715594

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : the revolution of the dead -- The problem of the dead : in which the French Revolution interrupts and intervenes in Paris’s pre-existing burial crisis -- The solution of the dead : in which a range of experts and amateurs imagine a new burial culture for Paris after the Terror -- The city of the dead : in which Parisians visit and respond to their city’s new burial space, the cemetery of Pere Lachaise -- The empire of the dead : in which thousands of visitors descend ninety feet below the city to tour the newly-opened Paris catacombs -- The museum of the dead : in which the artist and Alexandre Lenoir displays the dead as history in the museum of French monuments -- Conclusion : the historian of the dead : in which the romantic historian Jules Michelet resurrects the history of France in Parisian spaces for the dead.

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