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Home / France / Paris - "City of Light" / Catacombes 47
The Catacombes is an unusual Paris museum with displays of skulls and bones of six million of Paris' dead citizens. Visitors queue for hours to get into this "Empire of Death" which is rather bizarre. During the French Revolution, people were buried here directly, including the Swiss Guards who were killed at the storming the Tuileries and the victims of the guillotine. When you walk through the galleries, you'll see some famous names like Danton, Desmoulins and Robespierre.
Read more about our visit to the Paris Catacombes Here.

- A dark passageway in the Catacombes
[Catacombes - Place Denfert-Rochereau - Paris] - A graphic passageway in the Catacombes
[Catacombes - Place Denfert-Rochereau - Paris] - A la mort, on laisse tout - At death we leave everything
- A passageway in the Catacombes
[Catacombes - Place Denfert-Rochereau - Paris] - A poem by Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan
[Catacombes - Place Denfert-Rochereau - Paris] - A tunnel in the Catacombes
[Catacombes - Place Denfert-Rochereau - Paris] - A well in the Catacombes
[Catacombes - Place Denfert-Rochereau - Paris] - An 1860 picture showing Henry Linton and Jules Ferat transferring bones to the Catacombes
[Catacombes - Place Denfert-Rochereau - Paris] - Arrête, c'est ici l'empire de la mort - Halt, this is the realm of death
[Catacombes - Place Denfert-Rochereau - Paris] - Avenue de Montsouris
[Catacombes - Place Denfert-Rochereau - Paris] - Bain de pieds des Carriers (quarryman's footpath)
A pool of crystal-clear ground water discovered by quarry workers. The water was subsequently used for mixing cement for works in the Catacombes. [Catacombes - Place Denfert-Rochereau - Paris] - Bell hole of 1875 subsidence
[Catacombes - Place Denfert-Rochereau - Paris] - Bell hole of subsidence of 1875
[Catacombes - Place Denfert-Rochereau - Paris] - Bones from the Cimetiere du S'esprit, deposited here on 7 Nov 1804
[Catacombes - Place Denfert-Rochereau - Paris] - Bones from the old St Laurent cemetery deposited in the west ossuary in 1848 and transferred here on 7 Feb 1859
[Catacombes - Place Denfert-Rochereau - Paris]