Madeleine Cemetery

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Description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_cemetery

Descripcion foto: The Madeleine cemetery belonged to the Madeleine parish since 1720, and was one of the four cemeteries used to dispose of the corpses of guillotine victims during the French Revolution. The decapitated corpses of the guillotine victims were thrown in specially dug trenches and covered in quicklime to speed up the decomposition process. There were no markers. Among those reputed to have been buried here are King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, reputedly the only victims buried in a coffin (their grave in the picture). The cemetery was closed on 25 March 1794 and cleaned in 1844, reputedly because it was full, but maybe for sanitary reasons, as it was located in an affluent part of Paris.

Website: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Desaulx_Graveur_-_La_Tombe_de_Louis_XVI.png?uselang=fr

Completado?: Y

Fecha: 1800 cca.

Copyright: Desaulx. Graveur, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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