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Morgue

The Paris Morgue and the Lost Stories of the Unknown Dead

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Morgue

Av: Dr Catriona Byers
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‘Give yourself a Halloween treat and preorder this fascinating book! Crowds will form’ MARGARET ATWOOD, on X

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 laid out for exhibition in the hope that one of the many visitors – over one million a year – might identify them.

Structured around twelve overlapping stories, reflecting the twelve slabs in the display room, Morgue unspools a gripping and immersive narrative of a city in turmoil and a society in flux. Across five themed sections – crime, science, society, art and memory – Byers explores topics as diverse as death tourism, the sex trade, queer life, surveillance policing, the birth of forensics, the invention of photography and the rise of gothic literature.

Through the long-forgotten deaths – and lives – of ordinary people, Morgue offers an astonishing and intimate account of the birth of modernity.
Akademiker & Spezialisten Europa Frankreich Historisch Kunst & Literatur Künstler, Architekten & Fotografen Neuere True Crime Wissenschaft & Technik
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‘This gripping, indeed often thrilling, work by Catriona Byers proves that well-researched, pacily written works of sociological history can indeed make crackingly good books. The way that corpses in all their multifarious conditions have been used by her effectively to write a history of 19th century Paris is nothing short of brilliant’ (Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon and His Marshals)
‘Fascinating . . . connections to sci fi, horror, crime, forensic science, and the public’s appetite for grue. Deeply and passionately researched! Crowds will form’ (Margaret Atwood, on X)
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