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The night Paris sank among the dead
One night in 1780, a Parisian innkeeper goes down to his cellar to tap some wine and discovers that the dead have broken through the wall. For centuries, Paris had lived above two million corpses buried in the Cemetery of the Innocents, now saturated and rotting. That incident, grotesque and horrifying, forced the city to close the cemetery, transfer the bones to the Catacombs, and ultimately create Père Lachaise. Born from a sanitary catastrophe and made famous by a brilliant marketing move, relocating the remains of illustrious figures, that cemetery is today the most legendary in the world. All because one night, an innkeeper went down to his cellar.
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