Making space for the dead : : catacombs, cemeteries, and the reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830 / / Erin-Marie Legacey.
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca ;, London : : Cornell University Press,, 2019. |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (229 pages) |
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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.