Ergebnis für "Dr" in Frankreich

Peer through the enormous window and you will see twelve marble slabs. On each slab lies a corpse. For over one hundred years, from 1804, the unidentified dead of Paris were publicly displayed at the world’s first morgue. Wherever they were found, their bodies were brought to the morgue and...

Blending narrative with analysis, Peter Davies explores a time of obscene opulence, mass starvation, and ground-breaking ideals; where the streets of Paris ran red with blood, and the numbers requiring execution precipitated the invention of the guillotine. Davies brings the subject up to date by considering the legacy of the revolution and how it continues to resonate in today’s France.