The Catacombs… so you go from never having seen a human skeleton to seeing thousands upon thousands of them.
It is an ossuary below the city containing the remains of about 6 million people. When the cemetaries were overflowing and causing problems in the late 18th century they moved them to these underground mines. They were quite artistically arranged, see the heart I took a picture of above.
Translations of the inscriptions:
“Thus ends everything on earth:
Spirit, Beauty, Talent, Grace,
Short-lived like a fleeting flower
Blown down by the slightest breeze.”
“Happy is he who always keeps the hour of his death before him and spends every day dying.”
And one I didn’t take a picture of:
“They were what we are
dust, toy of the wind;
fragile like men.
weak like nothingness!”
