The Parisian catacombs were created out of ... Fedor Hoffbauer and published in the book ’Paris: à travers les âges’ in the late 19th century. The charnel house for the bones is to the ...

The Paris catacombs were constructed after mass gravesites ... The Holy Innocents' Cemetery, in use since the 12th century, took the overflow from other cemeteries and surrounding hospitals ...

The Paris Catacombs, the final resting place ... They then moved more when the capital was rebuilt in the 19th century. Catacombs manager Isabelle Knafou said rebuilding this first wall -- a ...

In 18th-century Paris, the cemeteries were overflowing ... before further work was commissioned in the 19th century to organize the catacombs into a mausoleum, including the walls of skulls ...

The Paris Catacombs, the final resting place ... They then moved more when the capital was rebuilt in the 19th century. Catacombs manager Isabelle Knafou said rebuilding this first wall -- a ...