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Author Legacey, Erin-Marie, 1979- author.

Title Making space for the dead : catacombs, cemeteries, and the reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830 / Erin-Marie Legacey
Published Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2019
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Contents Introduction : the revolution of the dead -- The problem of the dead : in which the French Revolution interrupts and intervenes in Paris's pre-existing burial crisis -- The solution of the dead : in which a range of experts and amateurs imagine a new burial culture for Paris after the Terror -- The city of the dead : in which Parisians visit and respond to their city's new burial space, the cemetery of Père Lachaise -- The empire of the dead : in which thousands of visitors descend ninety feet below the city to tour the newly-opened Paris catacombs -- The museum of the dead : in which the artist and Alexandre Lenoir displays the dead as history in the museum of French monuments -- Conclusion : the historian of the dead : in which the romantic historian Jules Michelet resurrects the history of France in Parisian spaces for the dead
Summary "This book unearths the revolutionary history of Paris's most famous spaces for the dead, including Père Lachaise Cemetery and the Paris Catacombs, and explains how they became powerful sources of collective identity for modern France"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis French Revolution, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris Catacombs, funeral rites, Museum of French Monuments
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Père-Lachaise (Cemetery : Paris, France) -- History
SUBJECT Père-Lachaise (Cemetery : Paris, France) fast
Subject Burial -- Social aspects -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century
Burial -- Social aspects -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century
Catacombs -- France -- Paris -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
Catacombs
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85098071
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85098072
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051332
Subject France
France -- Paris
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018046294
ISBN 9781501715600
1501715615
9781501715617
1501715607