TY  - BOOK
AU  - Legacey,Erin-Marie
TI  - Making space for the dead: catacombs, cemeteries, and the reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830 
SN  - 9781501715600
AV  - GT3249 .M355 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Ithaca, New York
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Père-Lachaise (Cemetery : Paris, France)
KW  - History
KW  - Burial
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - France
KW  - Paris
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Catacombs
KW  - French Revolution, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris Catacombs, funeral rites, Museum of French Monuments
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1 and index; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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"--
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