Making space for the dead : : catacombs, cemeteries, and the reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830 / / Erin-Marie Legacey.

• VerfasserIn: Legacey, Erin-Marie, 1979-
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca ;, London : : Cornell University Press,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (229 pages)

Table of Contents

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.