Title Making space for the dead : catacombs, cemeteries, and the reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830 / Erin-Marie Legacey.

Publication Info.	Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2019.
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Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
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Subject	Père-Lachaise (Cemetery : Paris, France) -- History.
	Père-Lachaise (Cemetery : Paris, France)
	History.
	Burial -- Social aspects -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century.
	Burial -- Social aspects -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.
	Catacombs -- France -- Paris -- History.
	Catacombs.
	France -- Paris.
	Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
	Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
	France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence.
	Revolution (France : 1789-1799)
Chronological Term	1700-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Legacey, Erin-Marie, 1979- Making space for the dead. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501715594 (DLC) 2018042962
ISBN	9781501715600 (electronic book)
	1501715615 (electronic book)
	9781501715617 (electronic book)
	1501715607 (electronic book)
	9781501715594
	1501715593

Title Making space for the dead : catacombs, cemeteries, and the reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830 / Erin-Marie Legacey.

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