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The dead of Paris, before the French Revolution, were most often consigned to mass graveyards that contemporaries described as terrible and terrifying, emitting "putrid miasmas" that were a threat to both health and dignity. In a book that is at once wonderfully macabre and exceptionally informative, Erin-Marie Legacey explores how a new burial culture emerged in Paris as a result of both revolutionary fervor and public health concerns, resulting in the construction of park-like cemeteries on the outskirts of the city and a vast underground ossuary. Making Space for the Dead describes how revolutionaries placed the dead at the center of their republican project of radical reinvention of French society and envisioned a future where graveyards would do more than safely contain human remains; they would serve to educate and inspire the living. Legacey unearths the unexpectedly lively process by which burial sites were reimagined, built, and used, focusing on three of the most important of these new spaces: the Paris Catacombs, Pere Lachaise cemetery, and the short-lived Museum of French Monuments. By situating discussions of death and memory in the nation's broader cultural and political context, as well as highlighting how ordinary Parisians understood and experienced these sites, she shows how the treatment of the dead became central to the reconstruction of Parisian society after the Revolution.

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Cornell University Press

Date de parution

15 avril 2019

EAN13

9781501715617

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

12 Mo

Making Space for the Dead

MakingSpacefor the Dead

Catacombs,Cemeteries,andtheReimagining of Paris, 1780–1830

ErinMarieLegacey

CornellUniversityPressIthacaandLondon

Copyright©2019byCornellUniversityAllrightsreserved.Exceptforbriefquotationsinareview,thisbook,orparts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu. Firstpublished2019byCornellUniversityPressPrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaLibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData

Names: Legacey, ErinMarie, 1979– author. Title: Making space for the dead : catacombs, cemeteries, and the reimagining of Paris, 1780–1830 / ErinMarie Legacey. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2018042962 (print) | LCCN 2018046294 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501715617 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501715600 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501715594 | ISBN 9781501715594 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Burial—Social aspects—France—Paris—History— 18th century. | Burial—Social aspects—France—Paris—History— 19th century. | PereLachaise (Cemetery : Paris, France)—History. | Catacombs—France—Paris—History. | Paris (France)—Social life and customs—18th century. | Paris (France)—Social life and customs— 19th century. | France—History—Revolution, 1789–1799—Inﬂuence. Classiﬁcation: LCC GT3249.P37 (ebook) | LCC GT3249.P37 L44 2019 (print) | DDC 393/.10944361—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018042962 Cover illustration:View in the Catacombs, 1861. Albumen silver print by Nadar [GaspardFlix Tournachon]. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Digital image courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program.

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Contents

Introduction:TheRevolutionoftheDead

1.TheProblemoftheDeadInwhichtheFrenchRevolutioninterruptsandintervenesin Paris’s preexisting burial crisis.

2.TheSolutionoftheDeadIn which a range of experts and amateurs imagine a new burial culture for Paris after the Terror.

3.TheCityoftheDead

In which Parisians visit and respond to their city’s new burial space, Père Lachaise Cemetery.

4.TheEmpireoftheDead

Inwhichthousandsofvisitorsdescendninetyfeetbelowthe city to tour the newly opened Paris Catacombs.

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5.TheMuseumoftheDeadInwhichtheartistandadministratorAlexandreLenoirdisplays the dead as history in the Museum of French Monuments.

Conclusion:TheHistorianoftheDeadInwhichtheRomantichistorianJulesMicheletresurrectsthe history of France in Parisian spaces for the dead.

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1.1 The Cemetery of the Innocents in 17861.2 Mirabeau’s tomb in the Panthon1.3 The statue of death in the Cemetery of the Innocents1.4 The remains of Henri IV, exhumed in 17932.1 Crosssection and design of Pierre Giraud’s Champ de repos2.2 Perspective view of Pierre Giraud’s Champ de repos3.1 Pre Lachaise Cemetery in 18563.2 Tomb of Antoine Lagrange in Pre Lachaise Cemetery4.1 The ﬁnal gallery of the Paris Catacombs in 18614.2 The monument to the September Massacres in the Paris Catacombs in 18614.3 Dramatic views of the Paris Catacombs in 18235.1 Alexandre Lenoir defending the royal tombs from destruction

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