Making space for the dead catacombs, cemeteries, and the reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830 Legacey, Erin-Marie 1979- creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. nyu 2019 2019 monographic eng remote 1 online resource. 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 Erin-Marie Legacey. Electronic resource. Includes bibliographical references and index e-fr--- Père-Lachaise (Cemetery : Paris, France) History Burial Social aspects France Paris History 18th century Burial Social aspects France Paris History 19th century 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 Revolution (France : 1789-1799) fast (OCoLC)fst01354514 1700-1899 fast GT3249.P37 L44 2019 393/.10944361 Making space for the dead Legacey, Erin-Marie, 1979- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 (DLC) 2018042962 9781501715600 1501715615 9781501715617 1501715607 9781501715594 1501715593 2018046294 22573/ctvdsgx2z JSTOR http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvdtphj6 NhCcYBP 180926 20210422112324.0 in00004432163