The Whole Death Catalog by Harold Schechter

Author:Harold Schechter [Schechter, Harold]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-345-51251-2
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2009-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

Early Christian catacombs.

The most notorious of these early European burial spots was Paris’s Cimitière des Innocents—the Cemetery of the Holy Innocents—a sprawling mass graveyard in the heart of the city where, for eight hundred years, countless corpses from eighteen parishes were brought for disposal. The shockingly crude burial procedure employed at des Innocents—where communal burial trenches were left open for months while they filled with decaying corpses—was graphically described by one eighteenth-century visitor to the city:

The dead bodies are laid, side by side, without any earth being put over them until the ground tier is full; then, and not till then, a small layer of earth covers them, and another layer of dead comes on, till by layer upon layer, and dead upon dead, the hole is filled with a mass of human corruption.

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