Ep. 1 Paris Catacombs: How France Turned 6 Million Dead Bodies Into a Tourist Attraction

Roughly 5 stories beneath the streets of Paris you’ll find the bones of over 6 million people stacked in neat rows and arranged in grotesquely intricate designs. The Paris Catacombs attract over 500,000 visitors each year, but do you know why such a shockingly morbid site exists? Let’s fix that. Sources: https://www.catacombes.paris.fr/en/history​​https://lister.history.ox.ac.uk/index-page_id=412.htmlhttps://mineralogicalrecord.com/new_biobibliography/hericart-de-thury-louis-e-f/https...