Les Innocents Cemetary
On 12 January 2011 by lane With 0 Comments
- Art History, Memorials, Monuments and Memory, Uncategorised
the skeletons of decomposed cadavers went to the charniers, but their fatty residues remained in the earth. The plague of 1418 poured 50,000 dead into Les Innocents over a five-week period, and the hundred-years war brought more. The air of central Paris must have been already putrid then.
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