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Far below the streets of the fourteenth arrondissement lies one of the most macabre and unforgettable sights in Paris: the Catacombs, a network of former quarry tunnels lined with the carefully stacked bones of some six million people. The galleries were originally dug to extract the limestone that built much of the city above, and by the eighteenth century the old cemeteries of central Paris had become dangerously overcrowded and unhealthy. The authorities decided to empty them, and from 1786 t...