Jour de la Mort(alité)
September 15th 2008 C'est ici l'Empire de la Mort. This is the inscription above the entrance to the Catacombs of Paris. Built in the late 18th century to accommodate the dead of the condemned inner-city cemeteries, the Catacombs are an underground labyrinth of passageways lined with over 6 million deceased Parisians. We descended into the damp, close, dark, down, down, down the winding stairs. And still the stai
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