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Home / France / Paris - "City of Light" / Catacombes 47
The Catacombes is an unusual Paris museum with displays of skulls and bones of six million of Paris' dead citizens. Visitors queue for hours to get into this "Empire of Death" which is rather bizarre. During the French Revolution, people were buried here directly, including the Swiss Guards who were killed at the storming the Tuileries and the victims of the guillotine. When you walk through the galleries, you'll see some famous names like Danton, Desmoulins and Robespierre.
Read more about our visit to the Paris Catacombes Here.
- A dark passageway in the Catacombes
- A graphic passageway in the Catacombes
- A la mort, on laisse tout - At death we leave everything
- A passageway in the Catacombes
- A poem by Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan
- A tunnel in the Catacombes
- A well in the Catacombes
- An 1860 picture showing Henry Linton and Jules Ferat transferring bones to the Catacombes
- Arrête, c'est ici l'empire de la mort - Halt, this is the realm of death
- Avenue de Montsouris
- Bain de pieds des Carriers (quarryman's footpath)
- Bell hole of 1875 subsidence
- Bell hole of subsidence of 1875
- Bones from the Cimetiere du S'esprit, deposited here on 7 Nov 1804
- Bones from the old St Laurent cemetery deposited in the west ossuary in 1848 and transferred here on 7 Feb 1859
- Bones that have not been arranged
- Catacombes
- Catacombes chamber
- Catacombes entrance
- Catacombes entrance and its huge queue