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Shown here is a small bone heap as it looked during the 1700's and 1800's
when workmen were emptying the cemeteries and filling the catacombs. The
Les Halles district above was suffering from contamination of poor burials
and mass graves in the churchyard cemeteries; there was much sickness in
the area, and in some cases the ground level in the church yards had risen
10 to 20 feet just from the volume of the human remains in them; something
had to be done. The decision was made to discreetly move the bones down
here.
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Go back to the crypt entrance.
Examine the map.
Approach the Altar.
