The Paris Catacombs

Beneath the streets of Paris lies humanity's most ambitious attempt to organize and aestheticize death—a necropolis housing six million souls arranged in walls of bone and skull. This episode traces the transformation of a public health crisis into a profound meditation on mortality, exploring how the catacombs became a space where the living could contemplate death without terror. From midnight processions of the dead to modern urban explorers, Lucien examines how this underground empire continues to serve as a bridge between the world of the living and the realm of the departed.

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