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Wer’e given to understand that these tunnels, which go on and on under the Latin Quarter, were originally a source of building stone. And that for a time they served as auxiliary prisons, for some regime or other.
In those days, apparently, they lavished a lot of typically French artistry on the piles of bones that they brought here a couple of hundred years ago from various churchyards and public cemeteries that had become crowded. I haven’t included here shots I took of a number of quite remarkable sculptures executed, I suppose, by prisoners.
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