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Offline Eagler

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« on: October 23, 2005, 09:08:09 AM »
saw something on tv yesterday about the tunnels under Paris and how they are full of bones as at one time the cemetaries were emptied and the bodies/bones where stashed under the city.
Is this true?
If so, why don't the frenchies kinda clean that up?
Seems sorta strange from here .. can't see anyone allowing the dead to be stashed under their city in tunnels and left there here in the states.
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« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2005, 09:40:26 AM »
Catacombs.

Historical preservation.

Are considered proper burial.

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« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2005, 09:43:31 AM »
It's not the tunnels but "catacombes" , some other city have those like Rome.

I guess picts like this one are a bit disturbing :


Well ,i'ts not only a place full of bones , it's also a place full of history ,myth and legends.

Actually the catacombes were build because the Saint Innocent graveyard was a worst  (think of odor, desease etc ...)

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« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2005, 09:45:46 AM »
btw I found a text about the Innocent graveyard  I've not the time to translate it now but even with an online translator it should be more than enought :


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Saturée d'engrais humain, cette terre exhalait des miasmes pestilentiels. Des accidents se produisirent, de plus en plus fréquents, de plus en plus graves, dans les quartiers situés autour de ce charnier (...). Durant les chaleurs de l'été, les exhalaisons étaient telles, aux environs des cimetières, « que les aliments les plus nécessaires à la vie ne pouvaient se conserver que quelques heures dans les maisons sans s'y corrompre ». Voltaire écrit dans son Dictionnaire philosophique : « Vous ne voyez ni à Rome, ni dans le reste de l'Italie aucun de ces abominables cimetières entourer les églises ; l'infection ne s'y trouve pas à côté de la magnificence, et les vivants n'y marchent point sur les morts... Passez par le charnier qu'on appelle Saint-Innocent ; c'est un vaste enclos consacré à la peste : les pauvres y meurent souvent de maladies contagieuses, y sont enterrés pêle-mêle : les chiens y viennent quelquefois ronger les ossements ; une vapeur épaisse s'en exhale ; elle est pestilentielle dans les chaleurs de l'été après les pluies : et presque à côté de cette voirie est l'Opéra, le Palais-Royal, le Louvre des rois. On porte à une lieue les immondices des privés, et l'on entasse depuis douze cent ans dans la même ville les corps pourris dont ces immondices étaient produites. L'arrêt que le parlement de Paris à rendu en 1774, l'édit du roi de 1775 contre ces abus, aussi dangereux qu'infâmes, n'ont pu être exécutés ; tant l'habitude et la sottise ont de force contre la raison et contre les lois ! En vain l'exemple de tant de villes de l'Europe fait rougir Paris ; il ne se corrige point. Paris sera encore longtemps un mélange bizarre de la magnificence la plus recherchée, et de la barbarie la plus dégoutante ».

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« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2005, 10:28:36 AM »
Rough online translation:

Saturate with human manure, this ground exhaled pestilential miasmas.  Accidents occurred, more and more frquents, more and more low registers, in the districts situs around this mass grave (...). During heats of T, exhalations taient such, around the cimetires, that the food more ncessaires the life could be preserved only a few hours in the houses without y corrompre.  Voltaire crit in his philosophical Dictionary:  You see neither Rome, nor in the remainder of Italy none of these abominable cimetires to surround the glises;  the infection is not there ct magnificence, and the alive ones do not go there on deaths...  Pass by the mass grave which one calls Saint-Innocent;  it vast is enclosed a consacr the plague:  the poor often die there of contagious diseases, are enterrs ple-mle there:  sometimes the dogs come there to corrode the bones;  a vapor feeds is exhaled some;  it is pestilential in heats of T aprs the rains:  and almost ct of this roadway system is Opra, the Palais Royal, the Louvre of the kings.  One carries one mile the rubbish of the privs, and one has piled up for twelve hundred years in Mrs. city the rotted bodies whose this rubbish taient produced.  The arrt that the Parliament of Paris returned in 1774, says it of the king of 1775 against these abuses, as dangerous as infmes, could not tre excuts;  such an amount of the practice and the stupidity has of force against the reason and the laws!  In vain the example of so much of cities of Europe makes redden Paris;  it is not corrected.  Paris will be still a long time an odd mlange of the magnificence more research, and cruelty more dgoutante
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

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« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2005, 10:51:32 AM »
Thought this was gonna be a Paris Hilton thread...:rofl

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« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2005, 11:05:09 AM »
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Thought this was gonna be a Paris Hilton thread...:rofl


That was my first thought too.  :D
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

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« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2005, 12:25:37 PM »
Same here...pretty sad that she has forced her way into everyone's minds, and ruined the name of an entire city.

I'd hit it though...


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I couldn't imagine living above such history like that, and the sight of the bones stacked up like that is chilling.

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« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2005, 01:14:42 PM »
Id love to explore those places.
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« Reply #9 on: October 23, 2005, 01:21:11 PM »
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Id love to explore those places.


which..  Paris or Paris?

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« Reply #10 on: October 23, 2005, 01:24:26 PM »
I'd add another bone to the nether regions of Paris.

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« Reply #11 on: October 23, 2005, 01:48:48 PM »
:rofl  Tarmac you filthy man.





Do these catacombs smell like death or just like old people?
Who are you to wave your finger?

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« Reply #12 on: October 23, 2005, 04:33:02 PM »

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« Reply #13 on: October 23, 2005, 05:06:59 PM »
Wooops :( forgot this thread.

About the Innocent graveyard I've heard a story (supposed to be true)  of one neightbour of the graveyard who had infiltration of cadaver "juice" in his basement.

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Re: Paris Bones
« Reply #14 on: October 23, 2005, 09:36:25 PM »
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Originally posted by Eagler
saw something on tv yesterday about the tunnels under Paris and how they are full of bones as at one time the cemetaries were emptied and the bodies/bones where stashed under the city.
Is this true?
If so, why don't the frenchies kinda clean that up?
Seems sorta strange from here .. can't see anyone allowing the dead to be stashed under their city in tunnels and left there here in the states.


If you knew a little more about your own country, you would know that you have some too in USA.:lol
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