Beneath the bright boulevards of Paris lies another city — silent, cold, and built entirely of human bone. In this episode, we explore how overflowing cemeteries, disease, revolution, and empire all led to the creation of a vast ossuary beneath the French capital — a labyrinth that holds the remains of over six million people. We walk through the history that placed them there, and then shine a light on four of the countless unnamed Parisians whose lives and deaths now form the foundations of...
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Beneath the bright boulevards of Paris lies another city — silent, cold, and built entirely of human bone. In this episode, we explore how overflowing cemeteries, disease, revolution, and empire all led to the creation of a vast ossuary beneath the French capital — a labyrinth that holds the remains of over six million people. We walk through the history that placed them there, and then shine a light on four of the countless unnamed Parisians whose lives and deaths now form the foundations of...
Beneath the bright boulevards of Paris lies another city — silent, cold, and built entirely of human bone. In this episode, we explore how overflowing cemeteries, disease, revolution, and empire all led to the creation of a vast ossuary beneath the French capital — a labyrinth that holds the remains of over six million people. We walk through the history that placed them there, and then shine a light on four of the countless unnamed Parisians whose lives and deaths now form the foundations of...
Forgotten Urban Histories
Beneath the bright boulevards of Paris lies another city — silent, cold, and built entirely of human bone. In this episode, we explore how overflowing cemeteries, disease, revolution, and empire all led to the creation of a vast ossuary beneath the French capital — a labyrinth that holds the remains of over six million people. We walk through the history that placed them there, and then shine a light on four of the countless unnamed Parisians whose lives and deaths now form the foundations of...
