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