LEADER 03777nam 22005535 450 001 9910824410903321 005 20230126220911.0 010 $a1-5017-1561-5 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501715617 035 $a(CKB)4100000007815601 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5732974 035 $a(OCoLC)1055570224 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73791 035 $a(DE-B1597)527434 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501715617 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007815601 100 $a20200229h20192019 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMaking Space for the Dead $eCatacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830 /$fErin-Marie Legacey 210 1$aIthaca, NY :$cCornell University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$d©2019 215 $a1 online resource (229 pages) 311 0 $a1-5017-1559-3 311 0 $a1-5017-1560-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tList of Abbreviations --$tIntroduction: The Revolution of the Dead --$t1. The Problem of the Dead --$t2. The Solution of the Dead --$t3. The City of the Dead --$t4. The Empire of the Dead --$t5. The Museum of the Dead --$tConclusion: The Historian of the Dead --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aCatacombs$zFrance$zParis$xHistory 606 $aBurial$xSocial aspects$zFrance$zParis$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aBurial$xSocial aspects$zFrance$zParis$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aFrance$xHistory$yRevolution, 1789-1799$xInfluence 607 $aParis (France)$xSocial life and customs$y19th century 607 $aParis (France)$xSocial life and customs$y18th century 610 $aFrench Revolution, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris Catacombs, funeral rites, Museum of French Monuments. 615 0$aCatacombs$xHistory. 615 0$aBurial$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aBurial$xSocial aspects$xHistory 676 $a393/.10944361 700 $aLegacey$b Erin-Marie$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01621139 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824410903321 996 $aMaking Space for the Dead$93954291 997 $aUNINA