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At the subterranean entrance to the Paris Catacombs. The sign reads: Arrete! C'est ici l'empire de la mort.: Stop! Here is the Empire of the Dead. I took no pictures of the piles of bones. It was a very creepy place (no, duh!) and I could have done with about half as long of a tour. It's full of bones, with markers indicating which cemetery each particular pile came from, on what date. Also, there are many markers with dreary sayings in French on the subject of the nature of death. I read many of them, but gave up eventually; there's only so much of that one can really read...

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