Well, the Scandrettes are in town for a visit. Today was rainy in Paris so we went underground to Les Catacombes de Paris and inside La Musée d'Orsay.Death and Beauty.
The catacombs are really interesting. Back in the second half of the 1700's they exhumed several cemeteries - something like 6 million people. All the bones were brought here to the old quarry.
It's unclear to me why ... but they arranged the skulls and femurs in stacks upon and stacks. It's creepy at first and then just strange.And of course, La Musée d'Orsay is a wonderful place. Toulouse-Lautrec was especially cool today.
2 comments:
creeeeepy.........we didn't make it there
One wonders what motivated the French to re-inter the bones in such orderly fashion, no?
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