When cemeteries are full for different reasons (war, epidemic), it is necessary indeed to make something with the bodies : common graves poured little by little in the quarries under the cemeteries. One finds bones under all the main cemeteries of Paris: cemetery Montparnasse, Montrouge's cemetery...
All the photos come from Montparnasse's cemetery, near the Crossroads of the Deaths. It is a roundabout in the catacombs which is under the same rounabout at the surface, in the cemetery Montparnasse. The quantity of human bones is there surprising...
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