This is just one out of over 6 million skeletons removed from around 30 cemetaries in Paris for the reason of public healthiness during the time when the cemeteries exhaled disturbing smell and caused epidemics from 30 generations of Parisian. So, the government under the king Louis XVI decided to clear the cemeteries in 1785 and transferred the skeletons to a part of the ancient quaries. The emporer Napoleon decided to open the place to visitors. The skeletons are very well arranged. The front of the wall, in some places, are specially arranged like this one.
Some places has old tombstones.
Last updated November 1999.