03777nam 22005535 450 991082441090332120230126220911.01-5017-1561-510.7591/9781501715617(CKB)4100000007815601(MiAaPQ)EBC5732974(OCoLC)1055570224(MdBmJHUP)muse73791(DE-B1597)527434(DE-B1597)9781501715617(EXLCZ)99410000000781560120200229h20192019 fg 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMaking Space for the Dead Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830 /Erin-Marie LegaceyIthaca, NY :Cornell University Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (229 pages)1-5017-1559-3 1-5017-1560-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --List of Illustrations --Acknowledgments --List of Abbreviations --Introduction: The Revolution of the Dead --1. The Problem of the Dead --2. The Solution of the Dead --3. The City of the Dead --4. The Empire of the Dead --5. The Museum of the Dead --Conclusion: The Historian of the Dead --Notes --Bibliography --IndexThe 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, Père 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.CatacombsFranceParisHistoryBurialSocial aspectsFranceParisHistory19th centuryBurialSocial aspectsFranceParisHistory18th centuryFranceHistoryRevolution, 1789-1799InfluenceParis (France)Social life and customs19th centuryParis (France)Social life and customs18th centuryFrench Revolution, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris Catacombs, funeral rites, Museum of French Monuments.CatacombsHistory.BurialSocial aspectsHistoryBurialSocial aspectsHistory393/.10944361Legacey Erin-Marieauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1621139DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910824410903321Making Space for the Dead3954291UNINA